What he's really talking about is a decentralized world.
Unfortunately, in an increasingly decentralized world, in which previously insignificant actors and factors can play a decisive role, strategic planning can leave decision-makers flat-footed.
In that distant world far, far away that was America before Sept. 11, much was written about how the Internet and cable television were creating a newly fragmented, decentralized world -- a culturally splintered world of niche marketing, special-interest publications and identity politics.
Given that the number of connected devices is predicted to reach 20.8 billion by 2020, there's an urgent need to fundamentally rethink security for an always connected, high-volume, decentralized world of machines.
While the ideals are noble, the decentralized world has some problems that still need solving — problems rooted in the very algorithms and design of blockchain, down to the very cryptography and consensus mechanisms used.
"We will be a catalyst or I would say a conduit between the decentralized public blockchain world and the centralized, legit and working businesses".
"The possibilities of a decentralized art world make growth possible, and that excites me.
Sessions this year included, to name just a few: "how to fly the space shuttle" by a former astronaut, "the future of news," "user generated meta data," "the metrics of virtual worlds," "decentralizing social networks" and "online hate/trolling".
To make any adversarial efforts more difficult and expensive means understanding that we now live in an increasingly decentralized and connected world in which the scale of decision-making is changing, rendering any domestic security policy or corporate decision global.
I had an enormous amount of tolerance for this growing dysfunctional culture within the Bitcoin community, because I thought maybe that sort of coldness and awkwardness is just what is required of an emergent community that aims to stay somewhat decentralized around the world, and aims to work with the blockchain.
