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Decentralised Futures

How digital technologies will change the shape of organisations to come

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Jonathan Bone

Mission Manager, healthy life mission

Jonathan works within Nesta Cymru (Wales), focusing on working across public, private and non-profit sectors to deliver innovative solutions that tackle obesity and loneliness in Wales.

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Christopher Haley

Head of New Technology & Startup Research

Chris led Nesta's research interests into how startups and new technologies can drive economic growth, and what this means for businesses, intermediaries and for the government.

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The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies for remote working and collaboration, with many people predicting that this may result in a permanent shift towards more distributed organisations. What might be the endpoint of this trend? What would fully decentralised organisations look like? And can we use emerging technologies to design new organisations that better address our social problems?

These ten essays aim to give innovators, policymakers and investors a deeper understanding of decentralised digital organisations, demystifying the topic and offering a glimpse into how, over the next decade, decentralised technologies could radically change the way we live and work.

Explore our collection, written by leading experts on decentralised technologies such as blockchain, to find out the trends, challenges and potential for these technologies to be applied elsewhere.

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