Corporate Environments

3 posts

Blockchain and Motivation

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, […]

Ford Model T

When you’re behind, Way behind

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 […]

Practice changes the theory

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 […]