China may ditch paper money

Blockchain, Bitcoin, paper money. What say you China ? They are on the road to eliminating paper money altogether ? Sounds fierce. Sounds like a good plan. Sounds meaningful. Sounds righteous. Sounds interesting. But will China do it ? And when ?

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Drones and rescues

Drones and rescue and helping save lives during natural disasters. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eu-and-south-korea-award-8-3-million-to-respondrone-project-to-apply-drone-fleets-to-control-natural-disasters-300851536.html

Distributed computing CALM - ness or not

Distributed computing and coordination is not a necessary evil, it is an incidental requirement of a design decisionThe key insight in CALM is to focus on consistency from the viewpoint of program outcomes rather than the traditional histories of storage mutation. The emphasis on the program being computed shifts focus from implementation to specification: it allows us to ask questions about what computations are possible.Interesting article and some good insight. Worth a read. https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/06/keeping-calm-when-distributed-consistency-is-easy/

computer tech security and public policy

Digital computer security and connected IoT smart everything have become public policy priorities in an increasingly digital and data-dependent always on and connected economy and society.

Peter Jamack - CTO

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