Imagine a public record which acts as the world’s knowledge-base for all of life’s most pressing questions, where the answers are vetted by thousands, if not millions of people. All using the blockchain.
This is essentially what Knowledge.io is trying to do with their recently announced project. Basically, a decentralized Quora or r/explainlikeimfive that incentivizes actual experts, instead of amateurs, to answer people’s questions by rewarding them with cryptocurrency.
Knowledgeable employees are a valued commodity because they’re more likely to do a good job than an uneducated employee. Hence, there has been a focus on the idea of utilizing “human capital” in modern economies, to boost productivity and job completion quality.
Figuring out who is or isn’t knowledgeable, however, is a task in itself that isn’t all that straightforward. From pre-school certificates to high school diplomas, moving on to higher or tertiary education represented by college and university degrees.