In this week’s Thought Sparks Podcast episode, Rita McGrath, a Columbia University Business School Professor, C-Suite strategist, business founder and best-selling author, sits down with Don Tapscott, CEO of the Tapscott Group, Chairman and co-Founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, and author of “You to the Power of Two”.  

00:00: Introductions and Don’s Expertise in Blockchains and Identic AI 

3:04: Predictions about the Web, Revisited 20 Years On 

5:20: Blockchain and The Transition from the Internet of Information to the Internet of Value 

7:27: A Personalized Future with Identic AI 

11:18: The 3 Phases of Digital Identities 

13:10: Digital Feudalism: How Digital Conglomerates Own Our Digital Identities 

18:14: “What’s the Ghost in the Machine?”: When AI Gets Embedded in Daily Life 

20:06: The Jobs Question: How AI Will Affect the Nature of Employment 

26:00: From Firms to Individual Contractors: When Units of Value Creation Become Smaller 

31:12: The Need for a New Social Contract in the Age of AI 

37:29: Rebuilding the AI Stack Around a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure 

42:155: Movement Building for Self-Sovereignty over a Digital Future