Blockchain and other Next Technologies addressing Global Challenges and UN MDGs and the evolution of the Self-Actualization Economy

1. Next Technologies to address:
15 Global Challenges
Kuala Lumpur Summit on Blockchain for Sustainable Development Goals
Jerome C. Glenn
The Millennium Project

2. UN SDGs and Blockchain

3. Blockchain is a key technology to
• Enable individual citizens to collaborate directly with each other, to play
their part in addressing Global Challenges and UN SDGs
• Navigate global complexity
• Decentralize collective intelligence & actions needed to address
complex Global Challenges and SDGs – current intuitions are not
efficient enough. (i.e., money in, results out)
• Cut out the middle man, reduce institutional blockage and prejudice
• Acting without asking permission, getting approval from “higher”
authorities
• Lets general public in richer countries help poorer countries with out
third party interference to address UN MDGs. Example Tele-nations

4. Blockchain: a key Technology to create
the Self-Actualization Economy
• What? Why?
• Concentration of wealth is increasing
• Income gaps are widening
• Employmentless economic growth seems the new norm
• Return on Investment in capital and technology is
usually better than labor
• Future technologies can replace much of human labor
• Long-term, massive structural unemployment seems
inevitable…unless we begin to create new economies

5. But what does self-actualization have to
do with economics?
And what does it have to do with
blockchain?

6. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

7. Self-Actualization Economy
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can be applied to society
• Basic physical needs are being met; extreme poverty gone by 2030
• Social Media Platforms and Content are addressing much of our love
and belongingness needs and as well as our self-esteem needs.
• Over half the world is connected to the Internet – we can now find
markets for our interests around the world rather than a local job
which may not exist in the future.
• You don’t run out of your life’s work, you just need to connect to
enough around the world - directly; hence, Blockchain

8. Other Next Technologies (NT) to address
Global Challenge and UN SDGs
Artificial Intelligence (3 kinds)
Robotics
Synthetic Biology & Genomics
Computational Science
Cloud & Big Data Analytics
Artificial & Augmented Reality
Nanotechnology (2 kinds)
IoT, Tele-Everything & Tele-
Everybody, the Semantic Web
Quantum computing
Tele-Presence, Holographic
Communications
Intelligence augmentation
Collective Intelligence
Blockchain
3D/4D Printing Materials/Biology
Drones, Driverless Cars (and
other autonomous vehicles)
Conscious-Technology
Synergies Among These

9. Three Alternative Global Scenarios 2050
It’s Complicated - A Mixed Bag
Political/Economic Turmoil
Future Despair
If Humans Were Free
The Self-Actualizing Economy

10. Future Management
1. Hierarchy
2. Networks
3. Intersection of
Networks: Nodes
4. Connecting Nodes
into Fields of Play
5. Connecting Fields of Play

11. For further information
The Millennium Project
+1-202-686-5179
Info@Millennium-Project.org
State of the Future 19.1:
http://www.millennium-project.org/state-of-the-future-version-19-1/
Futures Research Methodology 3.0:
http://www.millennium-project.org/publications-2/#method
Global Futures Intelligence System:
http://www.millennium-project.org/projects/global-futures-intelligence-system/