This week, the University of California announced [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/university-california-boycotts-publishing-giant-elsevier-over-journal-costs-and-open] that they cancelled the Elsevier subscription for academic journals. Elsevier refused to lower their fees and make UC articles open access available. This is a significant move as the University of California is one of
Read MoreScience’s primary activity is discovery. It aims to explain how the world works and we can use that knowledge to change our world. To do so, over the centuries, the scientific method was developed, and it has proven its value. It helps us answer practical, but often important, questions.
Read MoreA question that I get asked a lot is how should organisations navigate today’s digital transformation? An interesting question that encompasses different layers. It depends on who asks the question, the company involved, the industry the company is in, the size of the company, etc. Since the arrival of
Read MoreA 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 so
Read MoreIt is that time of the year again and 2017 is over before we knew it. The Year of Intelligence [https://datafloq.com/read/the-top-7-big-data-trends-for-2017/2493] brought us a lot of progress and change; from over-hyped ICO’s to algorithms that created secret languages. As every year since 2012, I
Read MoreWhen most people think of a cryptocurrency, the first thing to come to mind is probably Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is just one of many. At the moment, there are over 1670 cryptocurrencies [https://coinmarketcap.com/], with a total market cap of over $200 billion, each of which offers different values
Read MoreArtificial intelligence (AI) and robots have slowly but steadily made their way into a variety of industries spanning fast food to the financial sectors. This expansion is projected to continue and is forecasted to replace a considerable amount of jobs. A Forrester report [https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/12/
Read MoreOften, I write about emerging technologies such as big data, blockchain, IoT and AI. However, other technologies are also increasingly affecting organizations, one of them being Augmented Reality (AR). Thanks to technological advancements, Augmented reality [http://adage.com/article/deloitte-digital/augmented-reality-marketing-s-trillion-dollar-opportunity/309678/] is rapidly growing and is projected to drive
Read MoreWe live in exciting times, where it has become possible to send money across the globe nearly instantaneously, where you can create value out of nothing and where we are working towards a future that is decentralised. The first application that kickstarted this revolution was Bitcoin when it was launched
Read MoreEvery year, Gartner published the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies [https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/emerging-technologies-future-will-never-be-slow-again/] and today revealed the 2016 edition. Last year, Gartner tempered the expectations of Big Data [https://datafloq.com/read/gartner-tempers-the-expectations-of-big-data/159], by predicting it would take another 5-10 before it would reach the plateau
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