從“組織人”到“區塊鏈人”

WAlmart is using it to track Chinese pork. AP Moller-Maersk is applying it to marine insurance. Banks hope it will simplify cross-border trade finance. BP is experimenting with it to streamline oil and gas trading.

沃爾瑪(Walmart)利用它追蹤中國豬肉。AP穆勒-馬士基集團(AP Moller-Maersk)把它應用於海運保險。銀行希望利用它簡化跨境貿易融資。英國石油公司(BP)正試驗用它精簡石油和天然氣貿易流程以提高效率。它就是區塊鏈。

As the blockchain expands beyond its original use as a platform for digital currencies such as bitcoin, techno-evangelists are also bigging up its potential to do more than point to the provenance of a pork chop.

隨着區塊鏈的應用擴展至最初作爲比特幣(bitcoin)等數字貨幣平臺以外的領域，技術佈道者也正在大讚其在指明一塊豬排原產地之外的潛力。

“Business leaders have another opportunity to rethink how they organise value creation,” Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott wrote in Blockchain Revolution last year. Enthusiasts say the blockchain — a distributed digital ledger — could even bring down traditional management and the organisations that have supported it.

“商界領袖又有了一個重新思考如何組織價值創造的機會，”唐?塔普斯科持(Don Tapscott)、亞歷克斯?塔普斯科特(Alex Tapscott)在去年出版的《區塊鏈革命》(Blockchain Revolution)一書中寫道。熱衷者稱，區塊鏈（一種分佈式數字分類賬技術）甚至可能顛覆傳統管理方式以及支持傳統管理方式的機構。