Eric Brynjolfsson
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Eric Brynjolfsson · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 negative
Brynjolfsson: Smart contracts cannot cover every contingency due to world complexity
“One of the blinders that a lot of people, especially technologists have, is they say, hey, we can just write everything down to an engineering mindset. We'll write a complete contract that covers all contingencies. And the reality is, is the world is just too …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
McAfee: Traditional companies will unequivocally survive despite blockchain decentralization
“The question gets teed up. Are we still going to have companies in the future? And as Eric and I started to think about all the stuff that we'd learned and tried to digest, our answer was an unequivocal yes.”
Jan 2, 2019
Brynjolfsson: Crowdsourcing contests succeed only when problems are clearly defined
“Defining the problem is important, whether you define it for the machine or whether you define it for the crowd. Understanding what the problem is you're really trying to solve. If you can define it well enough, then these contests work great.”