{"product_id":"2940169196641","title":"The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Cryptocurrency\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the definitive audiobook on the Internet¿s Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBig banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many of the ¿legacy systems¿ once designed to make our lives easier and our economy more efficient are no longer up to the task. Yet there is a way past all this¿a new kind of operating system with the potential to revolutionize vast swaths of our economy: the blockchain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna demystify the blockchain and explain why it can restore personal control over our data, assets, and identities; grant billions of excluded people access to the global economy; and shift the balance of power to revive society¿s faith in itself. They reveal the disruption it promises for industries including finance, tech, legal, and shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Casey and Vigna expose the challenge of replacing trusted (and not-so-trusted) institutions on which we¿ve relied for centuries with a radical model that bypasses them. \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Machine\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the empowerment possible when self-interested middlemen give way to the transparency of the blockchain, while highlighting the job losses, assertion of special interests, and threat to social cohesion that will accompany this shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the same balanced perspective they brought to \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Cryptocurrency\u003c\/i\u003e, Casey and Vigna show why listeners must care about the path that blockchain technology takes¿moving humanity forward, not backward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161470681328,"sku":"2940169196641","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169196641_p0.jpg?v=1763674906","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169196641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}