# Foundational technology

`kaal:entity:foundational-technology`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `foundational-technology`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 2 works, 2019 to 2021.

**2019**

- [3373393-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-004) [definitional/argued] -- Blockchain is not a disruptive technology but a foundational technology, and its transformational impact therefore takes decades rather than years.
  > blockchain technology is not a disruptive technology, it is a foundational technology whose transformational impact takes decades rather than years
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Solutions for Agency Problems in Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3373393
- [3373393-041](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3373393-041) [condition/argued] -- Because blockchain is a foundational technology, blockchain-based governance solutions for agency problems depend on the creation of infrastructure components that have not yet been conceptualized in the decentralized technology evolution.
  > blockchain- based governance solutions for agency problems in corporate governance depend on the creation of infrastructure components that have not yet been conceptualized in the decentralized technology
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Solutions for Agency Problems in Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3373393

**2021**

- [3808873-040](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-040) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Decentralized infrastructure is interdependent across layers, so even a fully developed and instantiated infrastructure product in one area may collapse without supporting decentralized infrastructure products in other, inevitably related areas.
  > Even a fully developed and instantiated infrastructure product in one area may collapse without the supporting structures build by decentralized infrastructure products in other, yet inevitably related, areas.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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