1. Blockchain Identity (uPort)
Reference: https://www.coindesk.com/scramble-fix-digital-identity-uport-project-watch
-uPort is attempting to answer the question, âWho am I in the digital age?â As Reuven Heck, co-founder and project lead at uPort, it isnât a kind of problem answered by just another app, and this is because the internet wasnât built with an embedded identity layer. According to Heck, tweaking the top of the internet â the application layer â just isnât cutting it. So instead, the internet needs to be rebuilt at a deeper level, and uPortâs goal is to do just that. âWe believe we now have technology that allows us to build this as a horizontal layer across the internet ⊠without being owned and controlled from an individual company.â That ambitious goal leads uPort âamong the oldest projects under umbrella of ethereum startup and incubator ConsenSys â to be regarded as one of the most exciting blockchain-based approaches to organizing usersâ scattered, insecure digital identities.â ITâS ABOUT TIME. I chose uPort because I am not a fan of trackers, chips, etc being attached to me for identity down the road. This is an effective way of creating.linking/logging/securing your identity in the digital age and for yourself to effectively roam the internet world which is infinitely greater than our own physical Earth. So I think this technology is a no brainer. Iâm not sure if now I am sold that it is ready for me to use but I could def see myself doing so down the road if I knew it wasnât controlled by one party with an ulterior motive to profit from or steal my identity. Thus, I am sure this technology will survive in society and grow in influence just as we are seeing in other blockchain technology.
2. Blockchain Finance (Bitcoin)
Resource: https://bitcoin.org/en/
-Bitcoin is leading the way in alternative/decentralized/cryptocurrency. I find it fascinating that it even succeeds, but then again you look at the catastrophes that are modern day governments strewn with corruption, and I can absolutely see why Bitcoin thrives. It gives the money and the power back to the people, and of course governments wouldnât like this because they are threatened. I think once there is far more weight to it instead of being seen as a black market currency, people will be much more open to it. In fact, it may may recording and legalizing transactions and flipping the illegal ones to have to be done in person physically which would be more risky and public. Likewise to the blockchain identity, I am not sure I am ready or the technology is good enough for me to utilize or want to use right now, but I can see it being so in the future. I also believe that this is a no brainer opportunity to better secure our finances digitally without a central clearing house that profits billions in the hands of a few for the sake and cost of many to simply live and conduct everyday financial means and transactions. It will be a success, mark my words.
3. Blockchain Healthcare (Medicalchain)
Resource: https://medicalchain.com/en/
-Rounding out my top 3 essential/vital web mashups is a blockchain technology for medical records. Of course, besides our identities and what makes us unique, and our finances which allow us to live and conduct the means of which we need to exchange things in order to survive, is our health. The privacy and personal right to ownership of our own health and physical beings is not now nor ever something that should be profitted from by others. We should work together to help each other succeed and grow and be better. This technology secures our personal innate and God-given intellectual physical health rights and takes them back from the hands of the big pharma and DNA and health companies trying to profit from our mere existence like Facebook with our social lives. I think this type of tech will become vital and essential to record keeping/privacy/and personalization of our own health, instead of letting those with our data make the decisions based on outside factors. I would already now consider (if my health care network and PCP have not already) using this technology because it is still only shared with those I authorize to know, change, or have the info of my personal healthcare. I also know it will be so tremendously successful down the road and in society as healthcare communication becomes more digital and less paper based as in the past.