Category: Week1

Blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organization Is Future!

  When I first came across Blockchain [1] three years ago, I realized this is a super-powerful technology which can change the whole world fundamentally. I quickly fell in love with Blockchain, did research and even wrote a Blockchain cookbook, which is widely used by my company and our clients. You may not know Blockchain,… Read more Blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organization Is Future!

World’s largest companies by market value

The world is changing upon us, there is no debate on that. But how are these changes affecting the world’s most valuable companies? In 1992, the world’s 10 largest companies in terms of market value were Exxon, Walmart, Altria, GE, Coca Cola, Merck, IBM, P&G, Bristol-Myers and J&J [1]. All these companies had different core… Read more World’s largest companies by market value

Thoughts on Moore’s Law

It has now been 53 years since Gordon E. Moore published a paper called “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits”. [1] In it he stated that “The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly, over the short term this rate can be expected… Read more Thoughts on Moore’s Law

AI & Quantum Computing: Where Technology Is Leading Us

Technology has always played a key role in humans’ history, influencing significantly every aspect of our lives: how we interact, work, travel, and so forth. It is particularly true if we consider last 50 years, from the onset of the personal computer to the latest edition of smartphone. Let’s think about our daily routine: we… Read more AI & Quantum Computing: Where Technology Is Leading Us

The Peer-to-Peer Revolution

Companies with cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Salesforce are getting a massive head start on what the future of the marketplace will be. These big players are the fuel feeding the fire of the share economy where players like Airbnb, Parking Panda, and Rover thrive. To put it… Read more The Peer-to-Peer Revolution

Soccer vs technology? Soccer and technology? – The evolution of FIFA and what is next

Soccer is the most popular sport on earth with an estimate of 3.5 to 4 billion fans worldwide (1) (2). Traditional and conservative by design, FIFA is the governing body in charge or all organized competition worldwide having inference at the national teams level but also the local leagues. Every 4 years, the FIFA World… Read more Soccer vs technology? Soccer and technology? – The evolution of FIFA and what is next

Blockchain – a potential disruption agent in the healthcare industry

Do the buzzwords ‘bitcoin’ and ‘crypto tokens’ sound familiar? They do, right? Considering the gigantic impetus that several cryptocurrencies have triggered in recent times, chances are high that you came across such terminology on social media or your daily newsfeed. It certainly takes a lot of resources to keep track of the plethora of innovative… Read more Blockchain – a potential disruption agent in the healthcare industry

Barriers of cloud computing - why for some use cases the public cloud is not beneficial (yet).

The worldwide cloud IT infrastructure is changing: More and more businesses decide to shift their private IT infrastructure towards the public cloud (IDC, 2016). Promoted by the market leaders AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google and IBM, the public cloud seems to significantly gain in importance. Advantages like agility, pay-as-use pricing and availability levels of almost hundred… Read more Barriers of cloud computing - why for some use cases the public cloud is not beneficial (yet).

Would Artificial Intelligence threaten human progress?

Many people argue that the evolution of AI would inevitably lead to the downfall of man – it’s inventors.  In contrast to the natural inherent intelligence as portrayed by humans and other animals artificial intelligence is that which is demonstrated by machines through software’s that are designed by humans to process tasks and services that… Read more Would Artificial Intelligence threaten human progress?

HOW DOES QUANTUM COMPUTER CHANGE BUSINESS?

 [4] BBC “D-Wave: Is $15m machine a glimpse of future computing?” (20/5/2014)   “We’re at the dawn of the quantum-computing age, and it’s really up to us to execute.”, said Vern Brownell, the CEO of D-Wave systems. [1] Since the theory of quantum computer was suggested, many companies such as IBM, Microsoft and D-Wave have… Read more HOW DOES QUANTUM COMPUTER CHANGE BUSINESS?