Illuminating the Future. Blockchain by Richie Etwaru

I just finished reading Blockchain by Richie Etwaru. I am not the kind that peddles book reviews. This one, however, hit a nerve and sits squarely on my shelf of favorite books alongside Rushdie, Narayan & Dickens.

In the good old days, life was centralized, controlled by a few state actors and media companies. We were sitting ducks consuming whatever information was coming down the pipe. With time that changed, and the world of digital came into existence, a world where the hypothesis became decentralized with one to one communication occurring between entities.

Things started to get democratic, classless even, where society shares and revels in its mutually manufactured affluence, albeit with incongruent benefits, and therein lies the problem.

Today, we sit in the world of big data created by our daily activities, yet we don’t own it. The data that belongs to us, resides in the caskets of corporations, intermediaries and states that decide how to profit from it, spy on us, and in some cases use it even more insalubriously.

Etwaru’s Blockchain arrives at this critical confluence in time elucidating in faultless vocabulary the next era of business and life directed by a fabric that will materially annihilate the intermediaries and put value back into the hands of it’s creators and originators, where privacy, the citadel of a free society, matters, where authentication and peer to peer transaction can occur outside of the precincts of a state or corporate agent.

Etwaru’s Blockchain illuminates what Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, started several years ago.

For those amongst us that wish to gain an understanding of the most important technology waiting to alter the way our society will operate going forward, Etwaru’s Blockchain is a must read.