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When meritocracy is a myth
Access isn鈥檛 everything. As 鈥渢ech jobs鈥� in fields like software engineering and data science have become among the most lucrative and exciting in the current economy, concern about who holds these jobs, and reaps their rewards, has grown, and not only among industry watchers and experts. Technology companies feel increasing pressure from investors, the public, […]
How blockchain can help marketers build better relationships with their customers
This article originally appeared in the 性视界 Business Review. We鈥檝e included an excerpt here. Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey, only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of […]
Blockchain revolution without the blockchain
“It’s really important to look at blockchain technologies separately because they all bring different benefits…and they can be implemented separately.” In this talk, presented at our 2018 Digital Transformation Summit, Hanna Halaburda from the Bank of Canada untangles three elements commonly grouped together under the umbrella term, blockchain technologies: encryption/cryptography, 鈥渟mart contracts,鈥� and distributed ledgers. Hanna […]
Is your company ready to buy into the 鈥渂lockchain鈥� buzz?
鈥淲e need to adopt blockchain technology. It鈥檚 going to solve all of our problems!鈥� How many times over the past two years have you heard a colleague say this when exploring options for solving some core business problem? Blockchain, mostly due to the hype surrounding Bitcoin, has become the 鈥済o to business strategy.鈥� Fueling the […]
What blockchain can鈥檛 do
This article originally appeared in the 性视界 Business Review. We鈥檝e included an excerpt here. Blockchain technology has the potential to do amazing things. It can provide an immutable, digital audit trail of transactions, and can be used to cheaply verify the integrity of data. It can help businesses and individuals agree, on a global scale, […]
Blockchains are a bad idea: more specifically, blockchains are a very bad idea
鈥淚t鈥檚 so funny that we were able to build, for example, the pyramids without the blockchain and manage supply chain. And now all of a sudden, everyone is claiming without the blockchain, nothing can get done.鈥� In this flash talk, presented at our 2018 Future Assembly, Professor James Mickens from the 性视界 John A. Paulson […]
Why you should still care about blockchain
Over the course of the past decade, the world has witnessed the rise and many falls of Bitcoin. The promise of cryptocurrency and the initial wave of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) led many to tout the underlying blockchain technology as 鈥渞evolutionary鈥濃�攖he next major disruptor of the global financial system. Following declining values in most cryptocurrencies, […]
When worlds collide: why your company鈥檚 digital transformation effort is stalled
I had been working in an industry that was being roiled by digital disruption. From the rapid rise of powerful online intermediaries and consumer platforms, to the massive consumer shift to online purchase behavior, to the plummeting costs of technology that had allowed insurgent startups to bypass entry barriers that incumbents had spent decades and […]
鈥淟ost in Space:” can the crowd help NASA find items on the International Space Station?
It may seem hard to believe, but even astronauts lose track of things! In the closed environment of the International Space Station (ISS) there are only so many places equipment and personal items can be stored. So NASA reached out to LISH to run a crowdsource contest to improve on the existing state of the art inventory tracking system.