In a bit of positive news amidst the increasing weariness around social media, as its ill effects have become talked about in the mainstream more and more, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web has cooked-up a new, promising way to maintain more control over our personal data instead of giving it away willy-nilly to people who abuse it for profit.
This is great news, albeit too early to know how effective it could be, but it is at the very least a step in the right direction. The applications are endless and we could easily see that being transposed to the design and architecture world, where client data is managed carefully and accessed only in an ad-hoc fashion.
Similarly, I believe that the blockchain holds similar promises, and now that big institutions are throwing their weight behind it, its adoption rate grows in lockstep with its increasing legitimacy.