Convergence = Adoption

The natural progression of a new technology is well documented on the adoption curve. However, the adoption curve usually refers to technologies in the past that did not necessarily require or thrive from loosely interconnected ecosystems as much as today’s new environment does looks like. When a new technology has a linear type of progression where one step is closely related to the previous step in adoption, the predictability of the adoption is much more accurate. However, in our current life and more specifically in the advent of peer-to peer and #mutliparty workflow #decentralized applications, the linearity is not apparent. Actually, not many new linear systems are being built today. What does a #nonlinear system mean? Nonlinearity in systems means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules.  Here is a simple example, if you are a municipality that is trying to control the sky space above your town, you cannot predict how the system will change in terms of command and control if a new vehicle or drone comes into the ecosystem that previously wasn’t there. Nonlinear systems are very difficult or impossible to connect together.

So, where am I going with this? In order to minimize this big barrier to adoption of technologies such as #DLT, a convergence of technologies or systems needs to happen soon!

For example, if you look at the tech stack around Blockchain and DLT platforms, there are too many platform choices at the moment. When you look at the application layer of the tech stack, there is an even bigger need for convergence of smartcontract languages. Associations such as the Hyperledger foundation could and should encourage convergence if they want to see further adoption. In this space, I foresee the convergence on two or three DLT platforms and given the work that DA has done around platform mobility and choice, I predict a #convergence on #DAMLdriven as the application development layer for these decentralized multiparty applications.

Call for convergence! be #DAMLdriven