New lecture about "Decentralizing Society" at D-GESS
The course "Shaping a DCent.Society: Assessing Societal Implications of Bitcoin, Blockchains & Smart Contracts" critically reflects on the potential long-term implications of distributed ledger technology on our societies.
The course critically reflects on the potential long-term implications of distributed ledger technology on our societies. Students critically reflect the economic, political, ecological, and ethical implications of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency and the Ethereum smart contract engine by exploring connections to disciplines such as economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and philosophy.
For this ambitious and interactive course, we hope to attract students who are motivated by tackling large societal challenges with new decentralized approaches to human coordination. We think students with an open mind and interest in interdisciplinary aspects of their field of study will benefit most from this course. Programming experience is not strictly required but some interest in computer science will help to sufficiently grasp the underlying technology to reason about its implications.