Algorithms, blockchain & cryptocurrency : implications for the future of the workplace / by Gavin Brown, and Richard Whittle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Algorithms, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- 1: Now I Know My ABC (Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency) -- Introduction -- Algorithms and Work -- An Introduction to Algorithms -- Algorithms and Work -- Key Points: -- Blockchain and Work -- What Is Blockchain? -- What Can a Smart Contract Do? -- Blockchain and Work -- Cryptocurrency and its Implications for Work -- What the Hell Are Cryptocurrencies? -- Corporate-crypto-coins -- Cryptocurrency and Work -- cryptocurrency and the State

The Convergence of ABC, A Brave New World -- Recap Definitions -- Conclusion -- 2: Internet Killed the Video Store: Lessons from History Repeated in the Blockchain World? -- Introduction -- Will this be as Big as the Internet? -- The Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Industry 4.0 -- The Shortening of Supply Chains -- Add Value and Speed Up, Or Die! -- The Decentralised Information Economy -- CDBC -- Enter the Algorithms to Steal Away Your Routine Job -- Blockchain as a Cause and Solution? The Birth of the Digital Cooperative or DCOP -- Too Big to Regulate? -- Conclusion

3: Job 1/Job 2/Job 3 ... Job n -- Introduction -- ABC Will (Eventually) Transform Work into Microtasks -- Case Study -- The Increase of Tech in Our Lives -- Themes of Work -- A Worker Will Have a Number of Specialisms -- Payment, Income and Stability? -- Evolving Money? -- Case Study -- The History of Financial Innovation: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here? -- Before there was Decentralised Money, There was Decentralised Banking ... A Review of the Fringe Literature -- Why Critics of the State in the Monetary System Consider it to be Problematic? -- Pre-Cryptocurrencies Reform

Can Cryptocurrencies Fix the System? -- What Will People do with Their Money? -- Mainstream Multiple Role Work -- Conclusion -- 4: The Future of Work: The Emergence of the Bitworker -- Introduction -- Everyone is a Specialist, Everyday Competition for Every Task, A Race to the Bottom? -- Is the ABC Destructive or Complimentary to Work? -- Training, Pay and Reward in the ABC World -- The Bitworker -- Conclusion -- 5: Profit and Power in the Bitworker World -- Introduction -- Getting Work Done, Hiring the Bitworker -- This Need Not be a Dystopia, The Pros for the Bitwork

How Will an Organisation Need to Adapt? -- Profit and Power in the Bitwork World -- 6: Managing the Bitworker Economy -- Introduction -- Taxation of the Future Worker -- Vilfredo Pareto and the Future Worker -- The Welfare State for the Future Worker -- The Multicurrency Post-Gig Economy -- 7: Conclusion, Recommendations and Survival Guide -- Are We Ready for This? What Could Go Wrong? -- Recommendations -- Final Thoughts -- References -- Index

The convergence of Algorithms, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ABC) has the potential to fundamentally disrupt the current world of work. This book investigates the effects of this on the worker, the organisation and the economy, by considering a future where the traditional power relationships between workers and firms no longer apply.

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