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Blockchains and 4 other technologies that will alter our world in 2016 https://t.co/xvAScoWNd5

The world of work is changing rapidly. Mobile working has quickly become almost a necessity in many industries.

Crowdsourcing and the sharing economy are driving a huge amount of change and disruption in business at the moment.

The American middle class is in steep decline, which has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Converging U.S. and global macroeconomic change has created a millennial generation in fierce competition for opportunity and armed with the Internet in the search to reduce costs, find income and get ahead. Inter-generationally, there are more mice, the mice are more hungry, and there is less cheese in life’s maze.

Article cross-posted from P2P Foundation. Photo: Lendingmemo.

Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur, debated barriers to technology with the anthropologist David Graeber at a forum in Manhattan.

Peter Diamandis:  In accordance with Moore’s Law, by 2025 we’ll see an acceleration in the rate of change as we move closer to a world of true abundance.   Here are eight areas where we’ll see extraordinary transformation in the next decade: 1.