Hello NIPSZX,

I appreciate your feedback and respect your opinion. This reply attempts to explain why I feel the idea has merit. In fact, I believe that it is an example of an applied, non-coin blockchain application with profound potential.

15 years ago, there already existed search engines. The path was blazed by AltaVista—and even before—by Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. But, few would have believed that the combination of a search page with targeted keyword advertising would result in one of the most profitable business models on Earth. As a result, Google restored a long-term “laboratory” ethos that we haven’t seen in this country since the heyday of Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and the early IBM era.

Just four years ago, one project of that lab (another idea that generated chuckles & criticism) was the idea of a self-driving car. Today, almost all autonomous passenger vehicles still have a human ready to take control. Yet, with millions of miles of highway and city driving, the number of incidents and accidents pale in comparison to those controlled by a human driver. Are you among the few who believe that Uber or your own car (in the next decade), couldn’t possibly be controlled by GPS and robotic navigation?

I believe that the difference between invention and passive consumption is inspiration and imagination. I am not claiming that you are not a success or even an entrepreneur. But you and the VP of Innovation & Business Transformation at Innogy SE* have a chasm between what you can imagine and what you believe is possible.

On some matters, I might be as doubtful as you. But on this matter, I see an ideal application of blockchain methodology with the potential to address multiple problems at once: pollution, traffic jams, reduced need for building roads), reduced car ownership, reduced reliance on fossil fuels, etc.

Still, I respect your position. Thank you for sharing.

~Philip Raymond

* Thomas Birr
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