Is Blockchain the most important IT invention of our age?| Guardian

the government’s chief scientific adviser, published ... Distributed Ledger Technology: Beyond Block Chain... official study that explores how the aforementioned technology “can revolutionise services, both in government and the private sector... the potential to help governments to collect taxes, deliver benefits, issue passports, record land registries, assure the supply chain of goods and generally ensure the integrity of government records and services..
... improve health care by improving and authenticating the delivery of services and by sharing records securely according to exact rules... for individual consumers to control access to personal records and to know who has accessed them.””.

The report makes eight recommendations on how to turn enthusiasm for blockchain technology into reality.