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Blockchains as a Path to a
Network of Systems
Timo Seppälä
Aalto University, and the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
and
Juri Mattila
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
TEKES / Industrial Internet: International collaboration
opportunities
Time: 30.09.2015
Place: : Finpro Auditorium , Helsinki
Technological Change
and the New type of Platform
Economy
“From cloud-linked components
to
cloud-forming components”
Source: Mattila - Seppälä (2015)
Technological Change
and the New type of Platform
Economy
“From a Single—resource—sharing
Mode of Operation
to
a Multi—Resource—Sharing Mode
of Operation”
Source: Mattila - Seppälä (2015)
Technological Change
and the New type of Platform
Economy
“Rethinking Social and Technical
Boundary Resources”
Source: Mattila - Seppälä (2015)
Technological Change
and the New type of Platform
Economy
“Eliminating Waste in Under—
utilized Resources and Assets”
Source: Mattila - Seppälä (2015)
UBER – A Pre-stage of a Network
of Systems?
1. corporate
capitalist and the
industrial union
3. Platform Capitalist and
Under-utilized Assets
2. platform capitalist
and precarious labor
Technological Change and
Architecture of Systems
Centralized
Source: Baran (1964); Mougayar (2014)
Decentralized
Distributed
Change in the Design Philosophy
of Products and Services
”The software is no longer
embedded in products, but the
products and services are
embedded in the software”
Source: Ailisto, Mäntylä & Seppälä, 2015
Blockchains as a Path to a
Network of Systems
Blockchains
“Enable systems previously
unknown to each other to
communicate and to trust one
another without any intermediating
parties”
Source: Mattila - Seppälä (2015)
Blockchains as a Path to a
Network of Systems
Enigma
“Allows for untrusting parties to
jointly store and run computations
on each other’s data while keeping
the content of the data
completely private”
Source: Mattila - Seppälä (2015)
Blockchains as a Path to a
Network of Systems
The 21 Bitcoin Computer
Includes product, service, and
technology protocols for
ubiquituous computing
Source: https://medium.com/@21dotco/the-21-bitcoin-computer-1d28d652b57b
Practical Applications
Asset ledgers & Contracts
Supply chain authentication
Signatures & Identification
Digital voting & Governance
digital trust:
– How do you tell an authentic file
from a modified copy?
Before:
Now:
trusted third parties
blockchain technology