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Month: July 2017
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Is Blockchain Ready to “Cross the Chasm”? Lessons from the Internet
3 comments on Is Blockchain Ready to “Cross the Chasm”? Lessons from the InternetEarlier this year, IBM conducted the largest study to date on the state of adoption of blockchain. The study interviewed almost 3,000 C-Suite executives from over 80 countries and 20 industries to learn about their company’s blockchain plans. Survey responses where classified into three groups: explorers, investigators and passives. Explorers are already involved in blockchain…
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Last year, Foreign Affairs focused its March/April issue on Surviving Slow Growth. “The first decade of the twenty-first century was a time of unprecedented economic growth,” said the issue’s introductory article. “The rich world got richer, and the developing world raced ahead: by 2007, the emerging-market growth rate had hit 8.7 percent… Then came the…
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Is the Robocalypse upon us?, asked MIT economist David Autor in his presentation at a recent Forum of European central bankers. His presentation was based on a paper co-written with Utrecht University economist Anna Salomons. “Is productivity growth inimical to employment?,” they asked in the paper’s abstract. “Canonical economic theory says no, but much recent economic theory says…
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A few weeks ago, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released Realizing the Potential of Blockchain, a report by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, authors of Blockchain Revolution which was published in May, 2016, and founders of the recently launched Blockchain Research Institute. “The last few decades brought us the internet of information. We are now…
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A few weeks ago I read a very interesting article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, – Why Colleges Need to Embrace the Apprenticeship. The article raised a number of important questions on the future of college education, in particular, the value of an education that combines formal schooling with real-world practical experience, often referred to…