so they took another look at mr. commodus, curious little white paper and they've recently been spending a $1000000000.00 a year in block chain research. ah, crypto currency, digital tokens, public block chains, private block chains. where is the kill app? well, adoption of new technology often follows old trends. my name is mark francesca. i'm here at oxford years oxford. i'm a faculty. i'm economic sociologist by training, interested in how large scale infrastructure changes. so great to see you after 9 years. i know mark teaches a class on innovation and system building. he tells me what must align for new technology to become fruitful. all technology start out as interesting ideas. some of them begin to develop the innovations, and we know that that art from invention to innovation, takes a long time and takes a lot of work. some of those innovations eventually become commercially viable. but can this technology ever become as pervasive as the internet? i came to the computer history museum in the heart of silicon valley to find out. so you're looking up the console for sage, which w