Joseph Lubin, CEO of ConsenSys, a blockchain development company, has quite clear ideas.
In a closing speech at the Ethereal Summit 2019 in New York, an important cryptocurrency conference, he predicted a future with a society based entirely on micropayments, the web has been completely decentralized and an ocean of small groups gathered by interest is considered by people to be a "homeland" like the nations in which they live.
From 2019 onwards
Lubin's short-term forecasts are far from rosy, from his perspective: Donald Trump will be re-elected in the next 2020 elections and it will be the beginning of four years of involution in civilization, even sharper divisions and many more crimes of hate.
The Facebook split and the turnaround
In the end, continues Lubin, Facebook itself will admit its role in this radicalization and will split into two distinct sections, one "Facebook Media" containing only news and another "Open Book", made up of decentralized social networks (born from the current Groups ).
The IT expert's "vision" goes as far as 2047 when finally, looking back, we will see this current period as a time in which "liberal democracy was on its deathbed until it decreed, in 2023, the death of journalism" .
Where will the change come from?
Much progress, needless to say, will come from blockchains and cryptocurrencies: with their advent on a large scale we will finally have valuable information, especially at a local level, and a society of more responsible citizens capable of choosing.
“Moving news away from the influence of advertising and allowing journalism to live and thrive by providing verified news and receiving micropayments will be the revolution”
Joseph Lubin, CEO of ConsenSys
Since 2047 we will have an era in which “ethics will be the protagonist in the description of the facts, it will concern the very nature of the facts”, and we will finally be able to make mature decisions as a company, without being influenced by propaganda.
