Thinking about some blockchain precedents can lead to some valuable insights about what we can build with them. It's effectively a scroll. Societies used scroll

Thinking about some blockchain precedents can lead to some valuable insights about what we can build with them. It's effectively a scroll. Societies used scrolls to record actions so they could consult history to make decisions. Power was concentrated in the scribes and their masters who controlled the scrolls. If we now have a digital scroll in the cloud controlled by no one, that could be a powerful tool for coordinating entire societies without concentrating power. Maybe.