Mobile Pay
Mobile Pay – paying for goods and services by phone – is just one of the many ways that China…
Kissinger on AI
Henry Kissinger, eminent historian, philosopher and statesman, has joined the crowded debate over the long term threat to humanity posed…
Autonomous Vehicles
A good overview of the state of the self-driving art is here. Google’s Waymo will have a fleet of driverless…
Robotics Tension
“We’ll still need people, but robots . . . .” from a New York Times article about robots in the…
Graphene at the Gates?
Incredibly disruptive AS it comes. University of Manchester is where I’m starting my research. From Manchester’s Graphene site: “The world’s…
BlockChain for Shipping
Great potential, astonishing challenges! “Globalisation has brought the most advanced trading networks the world has seen, with the biggest, fastest…
Additive Manufacturing
From Boston Consulting Group: “Additive manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, is on the verge of being widely adopted…
Intelligence, Artificial
AI is increasingly ubiquitous, as are the reservations: data quality and integrity, trust, ethics, and the diminution of the role…
Gene Editing
From May-June, 2018 Foreign Affairs How CRISPR Could Transform Global Development, by Bill Gates “Over the next decade, gene editing could…
Private Competition for Blockchain
CryptoCollapse [BitCoin from $20,000 USD in January to $7,000 in April] allows oxygen to reach the multitudes of potential BlockChain…