Full Description
Language ability is a unique human trait, and it is indispensable throughout the human life cycle. Blockchain on the other hand, is an innovation that will transform production relationships, change collaboration models and distribution of benefits between people. Language and blockchain seem to have no intersection, yet they are bewilderingly similar in certain ways.When Language Meets Blockchain leads us into an exploratory journey to discover the possibilities of integrating blockchain technology with the language services industry. The author discusses how blockchain technology enables translators to realise their full potential and describes how the role of language can be elevated from a general tool to a driving force through a new concept called Cross-Linguistic Capability. This is a concept that will have very intriguing and beneficial implications for global economic activities.It is demonstrated that language is more than just a tool, it is also a resource and a form of capability. This presents opportunities for cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communications in the era of blockchain, to enable the convergence of linguistic capability with blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. The book's perspective on how the language services industry could adapt to times to embrace blockchain technology for industrial transformation, is both forwarding-looking and value enhancing.
Contents
Linguistic Capability — Catalyst for Human Civilisation; The Fusion of Language and Blockchain; Token Economy and Language Services; Preface; Introduction; To Know Macro from Micro — Innate Similarities Between Language and Blockchain; A Sudden Revelation — Everyone Lives within His Own Language Chain; A Perpetual Deadlock — The Language-Based Translation Services Industry Remains a Workshop-Style Existence; Unrecognised Gifts — In Need of a Suitable Model for Bilingual Talents to Actualise Their Potential; Wide Recognition — Blockchain Reveals the Value of Bilingual Talent; A Perfect Match — The Wonderful Union of Language and Blockchain; The Born Child — Cross-Linguistic Capability is Fundamental in the Blockchain Era; A Beautiful Evolution — A New World Free from Language Barriers; The Journey with Language — A Mutually Fulfilling Partnership; The Conclusion: Once in a Thousand Years; Epilogue;
