Enrique
De Rosa Alabaster is a doctor specialized in Neurology, Psychiatry,
Psychotherapist specialized in Neurosciences and Cognitive Therapies. He
has worked for more than 37 years in the country and abroad. Today he talks
about Blockchain.
He also
works as a Legista Doctor and Forensic Expert. Having dedicated for several
decades to academic teaching, he is currently more focused on dissemination and
training under various modalities and platforms for a much broader spectrum,
privileging interdisciplinary and knowledge integration in the search for new
paradigms.
In 2000,
he created an Internet platform to address the different areas, PsyGnos.com,
and another online teaching, E-Studyonline.com.
Then he
left the interview I conducted to Dr. Enrique de Rosa...
How did
you get involved in the Blockchain world?
I had
been connected with technology for a long time, although without knowing it,
until one day listening to talk about the Deep Web and the crime, someone
mentioned the Peer to Peer protocols as a great novelty and I couldn't help
thinking of Emule, Ares, etc.
In parallel,
one of my children had been investigating the phenomenon, but that associated
"Bitcoin" and eventually with cryptocurrencies and at the same time
how this was linked based on my work as a coroner, to the handling of money of
doubtful origin.
When the
Internet began to become popular in 88/9 and we already knew, in Europe the
hypertext, we had to go from a superficial and semantic reading to what was
behind that and thus begin to find out what this Blockchain was.
How do
you see Blockchain disruption in medicine?
Actually,
not imagining that it differs from any new paradigm when it enters a world and
is looking at the same, but from another place. Something similar is happening
with the "AI"; artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things
(medical) in medicine.
An
author Eric Topol raises the possibility that artificial intelligence will
allow to re-humanize medicine and is something paradigmatically comparable to
imagining that this technology in terms of data (among which are financial) can
become more reliable and not depending on a central structure but a system
sustained at several points.
This is
unimaginable where you can take us, from the use of medical data to the clinic,
research, etc. in which the integration of the same and the reliable availability
allows to work huge masses of information and hence the diagnostic
possibilities for example (where also among the AI) are extremely accurate.
At the
same time owning data of a person, the occasion that suffers from something can
allow for example to know what has happened to others or what has happened to
him since he will have direct access to a quantity of data immediately.
In what
other fields apart from medicine do you see a strong emergence of the
Blockchain?
I am
currently working hard in the face of social changes in which, among others,
there is a worldwide increase in violence to the possibility that justice is
the instrument we need to live happier, fuller lives to the extent that we have
rights and obligations. They can be exercised.
The
possibility of having unrestricted access to information should go hand in hand
with this and that will allow the investigation of the evolution of thought to
perhaps represent the true paradigmatic revolution like the one humanity had
after Gutenberg.
Any
field of knowledge and access to it will change not only our way of life, but
the concept of life itself, and for example the evolution in the consequent
scientific knowledge, for example, in the study of genetics or the
biotechnological interface, will force us to completely close certain readings
that we have and are useful to us today.
What is
the Cryptoweight project you are part of?
As I
mentioned earlier, the paradigm shift is a reality applied to multiple
scenarios of our lives; from medicine to the regional economy. In that
regard, Cryptoweight is an international money transfer system for the Latin
American region powered by its own “stablecoin” valued at 1 USD. Cryptoweight was founded by my son,
Federico A. De Rosa, in 2018 and in constant development since then.
Do you
invest in cryptocurrencies?
After
the Bitcoin boom (when it quickly passed to $ 20,000 worth $ 1000) and its
subsequent fluctuation, I was interested in the stories of people who had sold
all their goods thinking of multiplying them by 100 or a thousand.
That was
a good indicator that this phenomenon was much greater than finance, and
therefore much more volatile and risky. From there I began to study the
underlying technology, that is, I went from Bitcoin to cryptocurrencies and
other algorithms and from there to Blockchain, and currently, in reference to
the financial area, I find myself studying the different currencies of their
projection and eventually using virtual investment simulators.
Finally,
what advice would you give to people entering this new disruptive world?
In order
to be able to enter into any change, it is necessary to understand what
evolution and, in particular, the evolution of the paradigms are treated, in
which for this we must anchor strongly, although it seems paradoxical, in the classical.
That is,
in order to survive and live those changes and all the good they bring, it is
necessary not to be drowned by them and to understand what it is and is not
more or less than the same material, the knowledge that takes different forms,
but it is the same.
Water
adapts and we must emulate that; The negative aspect of Bauman's post liquid
modernism is the absence of limits, and the positive is that this liquid can
take a thousand forms and be soft or hard, but it is true to itself and our fidelity,
and there goes the end of the suggestion that is to water in the classic
studies.
Today,
returning to philosophy, to logic, to values, can survive the exit of Plato's
cave that represents each of these changes and not re-enter it... but with a
technological gadget that in the end does not We understand and use us instead
of using it, said Enrique de Rosa.
SOURCE: Criptotendencia
