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Building the Decentralised Ecosystem

Distributed ledger technology, which includes blockchains, is still a very nascent technology and the complete ecosystem is still under development.

The f(x) = e^x | The 5P’s of a Self-Sovereign Identity

Increasingly, big data is invading consumers’ lives and affecting their privacy because the web has become such a centralised platform. A solution to this might be the incorporation of a self-sovereign identity; an identity that is owned and controlled by the person or the device that created it.

The 5P’s of a Self-Sovereign Identity

Increasingly, big data is invading consumers’ lives. It affects consumers’ privacy as the web has become such a centralised platform. When you have centralised organisations collecting so much consumer data and using it to offer personalised advertising to their users, it causes problems. As Jonathan Taplin discussed in his book

Why Robots Will Require Governments and Organisations to Adapt

This week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report [http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_2018.pdf] stating that in the coming years, robots and AI [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/emerging-technologies-future-will-never-be-slow-again/] will replace 75 million jobs globally. At first,

The World Economic Forum and Robots

According to the World Economic Forum, robots and AI will replace 75 million jobs globally.

Blockchain evidence in court + a gift

As a valued reader of my newsletter, I would like to offer you a gift. As you may know, our new book was published a few weeks ago: Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World.

What is Prescriptive Analytics and Why Should You Care

There is more data than ever in the world and in the coming years, it will only increase exponentially. However, just collecting data is not enough if you wish to become a data-driven business. For that, you need to analyse the data to gain insights, and as you are

The final stage of understanding your business

Prescriptive analytics is the final stage of understanding your business, and those organisations that will successfully incorporate prescriptive analytics in their strategy-making process will achieve a competitive advantage.

Why the Internet has a Problem

A decentralised web was how the web was originally envisioned, but somehow in the past 25 years, it ended up in the hands of a few very powerful companies. As Sir Tim Berners-Lee said during the Decentralised Web Summit in 2016: > “The web was designed to be decentralised

The f(x) = e^x | Why the Internet has a Problem

This week's f(x) = e^x newsletter discusses why the internet has a problem, how the UN aims to stop killer robots and Iraq's cryptocurrency.