Published: 23 July 2015
Summary
The programmable economy, enabled by a combination of "smart" technologies and distributed computational resources evolving from the blockchain, represents a massive transformation of global economic systems. Business and IT leaders, as well as policymakers, must begin preparing now.
Included in Full Research
- What You Need to Know
- The Hype Cycle
- The Priority Matrix
- Off the Hype Cycle
- On the Rise
- DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organizations)
- Quantum Money
- The Programmable Economy
- Smart Assets
- Virtual Personal Assistants
- Programmable Business Model
- Smart Contracts
- Metacoin Platforms
- Digital Payment Advisor
- Things as Customers
- Sidechains
- Digital Currency Regulation
- Blockchain/Distributed Ledgers
- Information Valuation and Infonomics
- API-Enabled Ecosystems
- Wearables
- Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet
- IoT Platform
- Biochips
- Wearable Banking Apps
- At the Peak
- IP Money
- Quantified Self
- Internet of Things
- Cryptocurrencies
- Altcoins
- Sliding Into the Trough
- Digital Commodity Exchanges
- Collaborative Commerce
- Apps
- Digital Wallets
- Bandwidth as Currency
- Digital Currencies
- Green Money
- Behavioral Economics
- Bitcoin
- Crowdfunding
- Cryptocurrency Exchange
- Climbing the Slope
- Gaming Tokens
- Complementary Currency
- Appendixes
- Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels