A Brief Description of Blockchain: Why It Matters in the Real World

by Michael Talbot

Blockchain is an incorruptible, hacker-safe, shared database hosted by millions of computers simultaneously, and one of the most revolutionary advances since the dawn of the information age. The technology behind Bitcoin and other cyber-currencies, Blockchain has gone much further in recent years with an ever-expanding host of new applications. Now Michael Talbot can help nontechnical readers understand and appreciate this groundbreaking technological tool. In this indispensable guide for corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, students, and curious laypersons alike, Talbot explores in clear, concise, easy-to-follow detail how Blockchain works, its origins and exploding popularity, and its game-changing consequences for tomorrow’s business. Millions of people and industries are already being impacted by Blockchain, and soon it will affect the lives and livelihoods of millions more. At long last, you won’t need an advanced degree in computer science to comprehend this remarkable technology that’s changing the shape of the digital world.

112 pages, Hardcover

Published January 6, 2019

About the author

Michael Talbot was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1953. As a young man, he moved to New York City, where he pursued a career as a freelance writer, publishing articles in Omni, The Village Voice, and others, often exploring the confluence between science and the spiritual.

Talbot published his first novel, The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life as an Avon paperback original in 1982; though never reprinted, it is regarded a classic of the genre, frequently appearing on lists of the best vampire novels ever written, and secondhand copies have long been expensive and hard to find. His other horror titles, both cult classics, are The Bog (1986) and Night Things (1988).

But despite the popularity of his fiction among horror fans, it was for his nonfiction that Talbot was best known, much of it focusing on new age concepts, mysticism, and the paranormal. Arguably his most famous and most significant is The Holographic Universe (1991), which examines the increasingly accepted theory that the entire universe is a hologram; the book remains in print and highly discussed today.

Michael Talbot died of leukemia in 1992 at age 38.