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- For the Smart Token Technical paper, which wasn't using dita, it can be created using
````
$ pandoc -o smart-layer-technical-paper.pdf src/papers/smart-layer-technical-paper.md
$ pandoc --resource-path=src/papers --citeproc --bibliography src/papers/smart-layer-technical-paper.bib -o out/smart-layer-technical-paper.pdf src/papers/smart-layer-technical-paper.md
````
This results a single PDF file: **smart-layer-technical-paper.pdf**.
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#!/bin/sh
dita --project config/smartlayer-paper.xml
dita --project config/tokenscript-papers.xml
pandoc --resource-path=src/papers -o out/smart-layer-technical-paper.pdf src/papers/smart-layer-technical-paper.md
pandoc --resource-path=src/papers --citeproc --bibliography src/papers/smart-layer-technical-paper.bib -o out/smart-layer-technical-paper.pdf src/papers/smart-layer-technical-paper.md
```
Then make it executable. This should detect any error before commit.
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@article{wood2017,
author = {Gavin Wood},
title = {The Future of the Decentralized Web},
year = {2017}
}
@article{winter2018,
author = {Alex Winter},
title = {Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain},
year = {2018}
}
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# Problem Statement

Dr. Gavin Wood has attributed the centralization of the web to a combination of factors, including network effects, economies of scale, big data ownership, and intellectual property laws. This centralization has led to a situation where most websites today are integrated with at least one of Google Login, Facebook, or Apple Pay, and many use all of them.
Dr. Gavin Wood has attributed the centralization of the web to a combination of factors, including network effects, economies of scale, big data ownership, and intellectual property laws [@wood2017]. This centralization has led to a situation where most websites today are integrated with at least one of Google Login, Facebook, or Apple Pay, and many use all of them.

While this centralization has enhanced usability tremendously, it has also stalled the development of new integrations. This is especially evident in areas where the big companies have no major influence, such as airline flight tickets. Central points in such areas, such as Amadeus in flight booking, can reach only the back offices of various websites. As a result, a flight ticket booked on one website can be used to book a car rental on that website only, and not on any other website. Similarly, one user's reputation works only in that website.

This lack of user-level integration can be attributed to two main factors.

First, despite the reasons mentioned above, the internet centers have become trust anchors. Anyone else providing integrations, such as a calendar other than Google Calendar, is questioned if they will continue to exist or not betray to user's trust. This trust problem was not resolvable without huge centralised internet companies prior to the advent of blockchain, which can be seen as a trust machine that can facilitate trustless interactions between parties.
First, despite the reasons mentioned above, the internet centers have become trust anchors. Anyone else providing integrations, such as a calendar other than Google Calendar, is questioned if they will continue to exist or not betray to user's trust. This trust problem was not resolvable without huge centralised internet companies prior to the advent of blockchain, which can be seen as a trust machine [@winter2018] that can facilitate trustless interactions between parties.

Second, the number of system complexity grows quadratically complicated as the number of integrations grow.

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