Why can’t our governments and business organizations reach consensus on the most urgent and high-stakes issues facing the world? In this video, Andreas M. Antonopoulos proves rationally that the next great human innovation is blockchain.

According to Antonopoulos, all the institutions that surround us have been gradually built up as an achievement of human civilization as our communal relationships got more complex. Language? Think of it as the newest, high-tech thing of the time that let our ancestors communicate with others beyond ourselves. Fast-forward, however, and here we are in the 21st century, better connected than ever before. Yet we are faced with global issues like inequality and climate change, but can not mobilize to carry out the necessary solutions. As Antonopoulos points out, until the invention of blockchain, we didn’t have a way to create a non-hierarchical community at a global scale, large yet equal enough to tackle the problems of this time.

The Inspiration

We fully agree with Antonopoulos that blockchain is the game changing technology of the 21st century, a unique tool to handle challenges at the global scale. His message, that innovation does not ask permission, is one that inspires us in our everyday work creating new, decentralized structures. The point to add is that no system or corporation is too powerful to be upended by new technology with a circular sharing of power, because the greatest advancements in civilization have come as a surprise.

The Hierarchies we are Tackling

The blockchain ecosystem we are developing will help people communicate over the internet without being beholden to giant, centralized institutions. The way the internet works now, we are ruled over by governments and corporations, whose rules benefit themselves and sustain the structure they have created. By decentralizing and re-securing the way we search the web, BitClave is taking on some of the most powerful but dysfunctions systems built in the internet age. We’re not asking permission to challenge Facebook and Google, because they didn’t ask permission to take advantage of their users. That is why we are being bold, to create a system where we get choice in how we use the internet again.