Future living framework: Is blockchain the next enabling network?

Maria-Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2018, vol. 128, issue C, 226-234

Abstract: Blockchain is not the first -and certainly will not be the last- network fever we will experience. This paper shows how blockchain networks will disrupt the urban context as well, similarly to what it is happening in the fintech and insurtech spaces, among many other emerging application domains. We put forward the Future Living Framework as the meta use case of a wider research called Blockchain4Cities. In this use case, which uses UN's New Urban Agenda (NUA) as exemplifying model, we show the benefits of using blockchain in the urban field and we do so by breaking down the NUA in policies, planning, regulations and standards and dissecting these further into Quito's Implementation Plan (QIP) themes and scopes. Use case results confirm that blockchain will disrupt urban networks, like Cybernetics did in 1948, Ekistics a decade later, and the Metabolists and Webbists in the late sixties. The Ubiquitous Computing arrived later, in the seventies, and disrupted all the previous network efforts, lasting until the current Internet of Things (IoT) and its sister concept Smart Cities, when IoT is used in an urban context. Blockchain is here to take on and be the next network for cities.

Keywords: Blockchain; Smart cities; Urban technologies; Urban networks; New urban agenda; Quito implementation plan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.12.005

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