"As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and..." — Vitalik Buterin

Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the taxi driver out of a job, blockchain puts Uber out of a job and lets the taxi drivers work with the customer directly.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.