Part One took a heroic stab at explaining the technology that underpins Bitcoin – the blockchain. But although the mysterious inventor (or inventors) of the blockchain concept, ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’, wrote specifically about using it to implement a ‘crypto-currency’, the concept is not dependent on this: in principle the blocks could…
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In 1936, a promising young Cambridge Mathematician, Alan Mathison Turing, published a peculiar paper with a misleadingly dry title. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem was an important piece of work in the world of formal mathematical logic, a world blown apart 5 years earlier by Kurt…
The McKinsey Global Institute recently listed a dozen technologies with the potential to be so material as to disrupt the entire economy, over the next decade (see Disruptive Technologies: Advances that will transform life, business and the global economy): 1. Mobile internet 2. Automation of knowledge work 3. Internet of things…
Mickey’s 5th generation Google AR sunglasses are telling him that what he’s looking at is the Alter of the Chians at Delphi, and asking him whether he wants to know more about its history, composition, discovery or geometry. Or whether he wants to overlay an image of something else, a…