Quotes from Don Tapscott

If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

Privacy is the foundation of free societies.

Who is going to invest in a company that shows you what's going on quarterly, compared to one that shows you what's going on all the time?

Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow

In fact, soon billions of smart things in the physical world will be sensing, responding, communicating, buying their own electricity and sharing important data, doing everything

People ought never be defined by their worst day.

Online, we still can't reliably establish one another's identities or trust one another to transact and exchange money without validation from a third party like a bank or a government. These same intermediaries collect our data and invade our privacy for commercial gain and national security. Even with

We believe that blockchain technology could be an important tool for protecting and preserving humanity and the rights of every human being, a means of communicating the truth, distributing prosperity, and—as the network rejects the fraudulent transactions—of rejecting those early cancerous cells from a society that can grow into the unthinkable.

Online, we still can't reliably establish one another's identities or trust one another to transact and exchange money without validation from a third party like a bank or a government.

Today Ethereum is the second-longest and fastest-growing public blockchain. The

The financial services industry has already rebranded and privatized blockchain technology, referring to it as distributed ledger technology, in an attempt to reconcile the best of bitcoin—security, speed, and cost—with

Companies such as Unilever or Prudential are coming to us and saying, 'We're very interested in building better data relationships. Can we leverage your platform? We're very interested in reducing our data liability.' They're seeing that data is increasingly a toxic asset inside of corporations.

Zero to One.

La prosperidad que la tecnología crea ya no es mayor que la intimidad que destruye.

Every cultural industry is up for disruption, and the promise is that creators get fully compensated for the value they create.

Como observa el satírico James Branch Cabell, «los optimistas dicen que vivimos en el mejor de los mundos posibles; los pesimistas temen que sea verdad».528

We have growing wealth creation and growing social inequality. Powerful

Quisiéramos que las finanzas dejaran de ser una máquina de hacer dinero típica de la era industrial y se convirtieran en una plataforma de prosperidad.