How to understand "blockchain for the traditional industry to provide the possibility of bending the road to overtake the car"?

Why can't you explain it from the perspective of traffic distribution? Because you see the BAT giants mastered the channel, through the distribution of traffic, provide information to make a lot of money. But did not see why these giants can master the channel, why they can get the right to distribute traffic.BAT layout on the Internet in every aspect of our lives - shopping, payment, dining, entertainment, transportation, communications, social and so on and so forth ...... However, most of them can be summarized in one word -

intermediary.

The intermediary has long been deep into every aspect of our lives, almost, as long as there is some kind of demand, as long as there is a supply and demand side of the information is not equal, or even just a little bit of inconvenience, in the age of the Internet, there will be intermediaries came into being. Once the intermediary is expensive, is in accordance with the service charges, so only some industries common intermediary. However, in the age of the Internet, especially for Internet giants, data and channel revenue can completely make up for the cost of the intermediary, which is why several Internet giants are now talking about ecology, and moving the layout of ......

The Internet giants are able to distribute traffic and provide information because they mastered the channel, resulting in traffic, or information, can only be distributed through them. In other words, the distribution of traffic became a centralized process, not because the information, or traffic itself, is centralized, but because BAT, through its layout and by providing intermediary services, has made such things as the distribution of information centralized, and then this center is held in their hands.

Take any example, such as takeout. Didn't we have takeout before we had Meituan, Baidu, or Hungry? No, we can also know the nearby several small stores takeaway phone, this is the decentralized system, ordering food such things, originally did not need third-party involvement. But why has the field become completely centralized now? It's because these companies provide intermediaries, provide a centralized platform, and, at the same time, provide things that once decentralized systems couldn't, such as easy-to-access and use information, a (relatively) truthful rating and scoring system, and a convenient payment system (which is yet another centralized system).

So, when BAT set up these companies, BAT got this channel in their hands, and from then on, the ordering information will almost certainly be distributed through their platforms, which seems to give people a kind of "BAT makes money by distributing ordering information" illusion. However, don't forget, the reason why they can master this channel, master the right to issue this information, because they provide this intermediary system, destroy the information exchange is not smooth and opaque decentralized original system, resulting in the industry into the present all the information needs to be issued through the status quo.

The reason why you think that "changing the underlying system is just a change in the traffic center for distributing information" is because you have a preconceived notion that "it's a centralized system, so there must be a center". But you forget that there was no center in these domains, because someone provided the centralized system first, and destroyed the original decentralized system, so the domain has a center.

That's why this article, and people are bullish on blockchain -

All the things that these intermediary systems can do, blockchain can do (or has the potential to do), and, without having to go through the BAT, without having to go through any of the internet giants, through algorithms that can achieve the functions of these internet intermediary platform functions.

Maybe right now, technical, capital, and other resistance prevents blockchain from allowing the destruction of these current intermediaries like centralized platforms have destroyed traditional decentralized markets, but blockchain offers this possibility, which is why many people say blockchain is revolutionary or can change the Internet.

As for the reality, can it take out BAT, all I can say is that the blockchain is barely capable of taking out anything yet. Not to mention an already established centralized system like Meituan, throw the blockchain in an area where the uncentralized BAT hasn't touched or doesn't care to touch, and the blockchain will have to take out the original decentralized system before anything else.

And right now, as far as I can tell, blockchain hasn't gotten first blood yet.