Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Blockchain and Identity
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From time immemorial, our identity systems have been based on face-to-face interactions and on physical documents and processes. But, the transition to a digital economy requires radically different identity systems. In a world that’s increasingly governed by digital transactions and data, our existing methods for managing security and privacy are no longer adequate. Data breaches,…
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Skeptics needing further reassurance that the Blockchain is truly reaching a tipping point can rest easier with the recent publication of Don Tapscott’s Blockchain Revolution, co-written with his son Alex. Don, whom I’ve long known, has a knack for identifying what The Next Big Thing will likely be, and shortly thereafter writing a book to…
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For the past several years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an annual list of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies that would likely have the greatest impact on the world in the years to come. A few weeks ago, the WEF published its 2016 Top Ten list. The list is compiled by the WEF…
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A few weeks ago, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual list of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies for 2016. The technologies on the list have been worked on for years. But their inclusion in the Top Ten List indicates that each has now reached a market acceptance tipping point where its impact can…
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In early June I spent a few days in Mexico City. The main purpose of the trip was to participate and give a keynote at the 2016 Cumbre de Directores (Director’s Summit), a conference sponsored by Endeavor Mexico in collaboration with the IPADE Business School. Endeavor is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to long-term economic…
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Last February, President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity within the Department of Commerce. The Commission is charged with “recommending bold, actionable steps that the government, private sector, and the nation as a whole can take to bolster cybersecurity in today’s digital world, and reporting back by the beginning…
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Over the past several decades, information technologies (IT) have been fundamentally transforming companies, industries and the economy in general. In its early years, – ’60s, ’70s, ’80s – companies deployed IT primarily to automate their existing processes, – leaving the underlying structure of the business in place. It wasn’t until the 1990s, – with the…
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For the past few decades, digital technologies have been systematically transforming one industry after another. The transformations have generally proceeded along three different stages. First comes the use of IT to improve the productivity and quality of production-oriented, back-end processes. Distribution comes next, leveraging the universal reach and connectivity of the Internet over the past…
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Transformational innovations don’t always play out as originally envisioned. Once in the marketplace, they seem to acquire a life of their own. Lest we forget, the Internet started out as a DARPA sponsored project aimed at developing a robust, fault-tolerant computer network. ARPANET was launched in 1969, and by the mid-1980s, it had grown and…
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The October 31 issue of The Economist featured the blockchain in its cover: “The Trust Machine: How the technology behind Bitcoin could change the world.” Its two articles on the subject explain what blockchains are about, as well as why we should care about an exotic technology that involves concepts from cryptography, game theory and…