# The potential of blockchain

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@BCG Paris
- Speaker: Mike Schwartz
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_schwartz_the_potential_of_blockchain)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"Every now and then, a truly stellar new technology emerges, and it always takes us to places we never imagined," says blockchain specialist Mike Schwartz. Like the combustion engine, the telephone and the Internet before it, blockchain promises to transform how human society functions. We're not there yet but if all goes as planned, blockchain may just underpin the first real revolution of the Information Age.

## Lectures

1. [The potential of blockchain](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/mike_schwartz_the_potential_of_blockchain/06fa4c9544b8), 12 min (TED's player)