Bitcoin and other soaring cryptocurrencies dominate the headlines. But this episode of What’s Ahead reveals that a far bigger story is brewing, which will rock the worlds of politics, economics and finance: the attempt by governments and central banks to crush digital currencies with taxes and regulations so that they don’t become alternatives to government money, such as the dollar and the euro.
Politicians and central bankers will fiercely fight to preserve their currency monopolies.
Currently, serious obstacles stand in the way of cryptocurrencies becoming everyday money. But these will be overcome, and the battle will be joined. Ultimately, the monetary monopolists will be defeated.
For better or worse, a new economic era is coming.
Two decades after the birth of Agile methodology, the top brass is finally catching on.
20 years ago, a group of 17 software developers changed the world.
In February 2001, what came to be known as the Agile Alliance developed the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Written over a long weekend at Snowbird, a ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, the Manifesto advocated a new approach to software—one that emphasized adaptation, action, and speed over careful planning and consideration.