This slidedeck briefly introduces blockchain technology and then requests readers to share a scenario - a story of a possible future - of possible uses for blockchain tech in the future. The stories can be shared on Sensemaker, and the slidedeck gives a step-by-step demo of how that would work. The deck then lists possible future users as prompts for your imaginative exploration of how blockchain technology might affect people in all walks of life and sectors.

1. BLOCKCHAIN
FUTURES
What are all the uses
you can imagine?
http://bit.ly/1IbXSJh
Dr Wendy L Schultz
26 April 2016

2. So. Blockchain.
What’s that all about?

3. Blockchain
– the basics:
distributing &
decentralizing
trust to transfer
things of value
securely
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/how-will-blockchain-technology-
transform-financial-services/

4. William Mougayer, “Understanding the blockchain”,
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/understanding-the-blockchain

5. So. Blockchain.
What’s that all about?
John Lanchester, “When Bitcoin Grows Up”,
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n08/john-lanchester/when-bitcoin-grows-
up

6. Blockchain futures narratives collector –
the invitation to share on Sensemaker

7. Sensemaker start page:
http://bit.ly/1IbXSJh
http://merlion.sensemaker-
suite.com/Collector/collector.gsp?projectID=BlockchainFutures&la
nguage=en#Collector

8. Step by step example.

15. … need some help thinking up possibilities?
Contribute a mini-scenario yourself:
http://bit.ly/1IbXSJh
or get Sensemaker Collector (red) app
on Google or IOS app store,
use activity code “blockchain”

16. Blockchain future applications –
generating possibilities with Verge
Verge General
Practice
Framework for
Futures Studies
and Foresight

17. How might any of these people
use blockchain?
DEFINE
Opinion leaders in the news; scientists; artists and
writers; philosophers and social revolutionaires
RELATE
Businesses; unions; NGOs; international agencies;
government agencies; families
CONNECT
News sources; media organizations; celebrities;
artists, musicians, poets, designers; IT experts
CREATE
Investors; manufacturers; farmers; educators;
inventors
CONSUME
Retail shoppers; food and restaurant patrons; house
owners; movie and book fans
DESTROY
Garbage collectors, recyclers; vandals, terrorists; grey
market and black market participants

18. Enter your stories now!
http://bit.ly/1IbXSJh

19. Keep those stories coming – add as many as
you like, as ideas about the evolving future of
blockchain emerge.
Article on ‘blockchain futures’
via Sensemaker Collector
by 30 April 2016
any questions?
wendy@infinitefutures.com
this slidedeck available on Slideshare at
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