Just because something needs to get done doesn’t mean that it will. I have learned this in many contexts, most recently in writing about the pharmaceutical industry. They come up as a good candidate to use Blockchain as a way of stopping counterfeiting. By all accounts, they continue to sit on their hands. While there are profound losses coupled with compromised safety, it’s not a priority, […]
Corporate Environments
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Learning from Healthcare Healthcare is one area of Blockchain application that libraries can learn from. For example, it is currently under consideration as a means of helping stem the tide of counterfeit prescriptions. It would be more important than most applications, because counterfeit drugs are a 200 billion dollar market. They are often made with wrong ingredients. Other sources point to issues in other arenas that […]
Most of what we have written about concerns new peer-to-peer paradigms, which are inspired by blockchain and BTC (Bitcoin). If financial networks can be peer-to-peer, what about other things? Now it’s time to look in the other direction. Is blockchain supporting old paradigms? It is. In terms of how things worked a couple of industrial revolutions ago, it’s a tool like a wrench. A wrench can […]