Introduction
1.
The vision
1.1.
Here are some of the major characteristics of the new visionary computational ecosystems:
1.2.
Major players in the global computational ecosystem
2.
Blockchain technologies
2.1.
Blockchain in general
2.1.1.
From cypherpunk to blockchains & Wtf is Ethereum really?: 1h17m video (Redecentralize 2015).
2.1.2.
How Blockchain Technology Can Help us Achieve Prosperity - Don Tapscott
2.1.3.
Introduction to Consensus by Dominic Williams (Ethereum DevCon1)
2.1.4.
Challenges in Public Economic Consensus by Vlad Zamfir. Slides. (Ethereum DevCon1)
2.1.5.
Digital Identity (DEVCON 1)
2.1.6.
Identity and common identity interfaces
2.2.
Ethereum
2.2.1.
Keynote and Ethereum roadmap
2.2.2.
Panel on scalability (DEVCON 1).
2.2.3.
Scalable Blockchains & Asynchronous Programming - Vitalik Buterin - (DEVCON 1)
2.2.4.
Casper protocol by Vlad Zamfir (slides) (DEVCON 1):
2.3.
Bitcoin
2.3.1.
Talk: Andreas M. Antonopoulos: "Consensus Algorithms, Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin" [UCL]
2.4.
Zcash
3.
Distributed social governance
3.1.
Colony - Jack du Rose - (DEVCON 1)
3.2.
Bitnation (Governance 2.0)
4.
Distributed file systems (DFS)
4.1.
IPFS
4.2.
Maidsafe
4.3.
Swarm (part of Ethereum, but anyway)
5.
Integration with existing ecosystem
5.1.
Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (EthBaaS) on MS Azure
6.
Internet of Things
6.1.
Cory Doctorow & Tim O’Reilly Discuss Security and Privacy in The Internet of Things
7.
Decentralized computing
7.1.
Ceptr
7.1.1.
Ceptr in a nutshell
7.1.2.
A few more points...
7.2.
MIT's Enigma
7.3.
Golem - worldwide supercomputer
8.
Decentralized Commerce
8.1.
OpenBazaar
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Future Internet technologies
Panel on scalability
(DEVCON 1).
It seems what Buterin and Martin say, is that currently the communication between contracts is 'synchronous' (around 14.26).
Asynchronous execution is still something that should come into Ethereum;