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    The document provides questions to consider before and after watching a TED Talk about how the blockchain will radically transform the economy. Before watching, it asks what blockchain is, how it works, and how it could transform the economy. It also defines some relevant vocabulary terms. After watching, it prompts the reader to summarize key aspects of how blockchain can continue and evolve human needs, lower uncertainty, collapse institutions and their enforcement, and how uncertainty can help progress.

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    A lesson about blockchain technology, for a TED talk on the subject

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    TED Talk: How The Blockchain Will Radically Transform The Economy

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    Bettina Borg Cardona
    The document provides questions to consider before and after watching a TED Talk about how the blockchain will radically transform the economy. Before watching, it asks what blockchain is, how it works, and how it could transform the economy. It also defines some relevant vocabulary terms. After watching, it prompts the reader to summarize key aspects of how blockchain can continue and evolve human needs, lower uncertainty, collapse institutions and their enforcement, and how uncertainty can help progress.

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    TED Talk: How the Blockchain Will Radically Transform the Economy

    Before Watching:

    1. What is Blockchain? How does it work?

    2. How do you think this can radically transform the economy?

    Vocabulary

    Pioneer (v). constraints the grease that allows our economic wheels to function

    Hunter-gatherers Repercussions decentralised peer-to-peer network

    Immutable unforgeable composite at its core difficult to tamper with

    Attestations cobble together attributes horizontal supply chain

    Nodes in the network monitor (V.) reneging to bear out a contract

    Collateralised floor (V.) infancy

    After Watching:

    1. What aspect of human behaviour does the speaker say the Blockchain will continue?

    2. How is Blockchain able to evolve this particular need?

    3. How is it similar to Wikipedia? How is it different?

    4. How can Blockchain lower uncertainty? Give some examples the speaker mentions.

    5. What does the speaker mean when she says “we can collapse institutions and their
    enforcement”?

    6. How does uncertainty actually help to move things forward?

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