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LH #72 The University in the Future, with Stephen Downes

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Blockchain and Learning

Blockchain is a way of creating data records such that first of all, they are chained together. As a result of that chaining, the records cannot be changed. So anywhere you need persistence, that kind of data structure will do the job. How they do this is really fascinating. These are the physical structures in the social brain. That's why it's an environmental issue as well. And so, you know, I mean, we've been talking about syntactic structures and persistence and all of that. But knowledge and learning can also exist on a social level. You need these physical structures and they are physical structures.

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