After re-reading your article, I need to add to my previous acknowledgement of your writing. I’m not a techie and don’t know the language of blockchain too well. But I “got it” when I read about it a year or two ago. I saw many applications related to provenance issues with art and writing. I glimpsed its larger possibilities for the broader issues of markets/marketplaces in general But haven’t had time to take from my corporate transformation design work.
With my deep Austrian Economics and Libertarian (I now refer to myself as “classical liberal” if I need to) background in the ’70s I seem to be a lone voice who sees the marketplace in ideas, in anything of mutual interest to people, as being important to our future.
I am inspired to get back, deeply, into the development of marketplace philosophy and theory. You’ve rekindled my spirit! Thanks. I’ll be writing about it on Medium and other places soon.
My interest for decades has been in the possibilities inherent in organizational forms for doing business. I right now engaged with developing a language for transformation of business organization incorporating the market approach. What if we thought about an enterprise as a marketplace dealing with marketplaces of ideas, technologies, potential customers and communities of practice?
Thanks for your work and your writing.
