Ukraine's fury into blockchain

Cool that Ukraine and bitfury are launching a full scale blockchain government pilot.  Bitfury is part of a Richard Branson Startup.

Mapping Algorithms are dumb sometimes

Using AI for predicting crimes and mapping directions  has serious flaws. 

    I can attest that Google Maps and Waze are really dumb sometimes. Even in 2017. Years ago MapQuest and Google maps would send you around and around or off a cliff or into an ocean or down a street that doesn't exist.  Its improved tremendously over the years , but still has serious flaws.

    The past year I've done a lot of cross country traveling and half the time no phone signal and the downloaded maps suck.   But the routes are just stupid sometimes.  Send you down back roads.  Tell you to make a left turn on a 6 lane highway.  It's not a mistake either. It's really an option. But it's an option only an idiot would make.  And these maps do this all the time so it's not just some bug.

     The other reality is as much as machine learning has been bragged about  , half these companies make their revenue off of selling their AI to fortune 1000 companies.  You know , many of the ones going out of business or bankrupt.  Even Wal-Mart has struggled to stop that Amazon push into everything. 

   What Machine Learning seems to be best at is selling more advertising, fake news  and winning games.   But actually improving half these companies, it's really just a lie. 

    I mean if you hear some marketing pitch from a AI startup and they list a company going out of business as one of their clients , what exactly was the point of their system ?  To sell BS to a dying franchise?  That's not business , that's just a con game. 

  

  

At&T 5g expansion

At&T made a smart IoT city move and acquisition and want to expand across the IOT universe. 

South Korea IOT Smart City

South Korea launches a Smart IOT City network.  This is great. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36710667

Thomson Reuters blockone blockchain beta

Blockone blockchain utilizing Ethereum sounds like an interesting project.  I will test this out and let you know what works and what doesn't.  Stay tuned. 

IOT & Blockchain

A IOT blockchain based storage and system management system.

This sounds interesting, but early stages and a work in progress. 

Porsche seeks blockchain startups

Porsche seeks startups for blockchain initiatives.  These are more aqui-hire opportunities over invest in a startup to grow opportunities though.  Or just get a lot of cheap proposals and POCs.

AT&T 5G purchase

AT&T 5G expands with purchase
Of Straight Path Communications. They  hold a boatload of nationwide(USA)
high-frequency radio licenses in the 39 gigahertz and 28 gigahertz bands.

Plantoid Primavera De Filippi

https://youtu.be/Xu2c0CzaMyk

Smart city iot more asia and india

Asia and India are pushing for and investing in Smart Cities and IOT while the USA is lagging behind. 

Some of it is legacy infrastructure and city/state /fed politics. Other factors include the US is filled with a lot of marketing hype and little implementation.
We will see how it all plays out. 

Smart Cities and IOT...

The 4Cs are crucial.

Collaboration
Community
Consistency
Community

Driving across the country with a dog

Driving across the country in a 2014 VW Jetta that has 74k miles on it.  I have a few phone calls and meetings and a book to write so some stops are required. Plus Bennie will need his walks and breaks.

I started in Orange County, but the route with bennie the dog and I will be as follows :

San Diego to Salton Sea.  Short pit stop.

Salton Sea to Phoenix.  Rest overnight.

Phoenix to Albuquerque. Rest overnight.

Albuquerque to Oklahoma City.  Rest overnight. 

Oklahoma City to Memphis. Rest overnight.

Memphis to Birmingham. Pit stop.

Birmingham to Atlanta.  Finished.   Hooray.

We will see how this all goes. 
It's 80 degrees and hot now so. 

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(Google maps shared route is terrible
..See below )

Shared route From (33.0236617,-117.0753169) to Atlanta via CA-78 E. 1 d 9 hr (2181 mi) 1 d 9 hr in current traffic 1. Head south toward Rancho Bernardo Rd 2. Turn right onto Rancho Bernardo Rd 3. Use the right 2 lanes to take the Interstate 15 N ramp 4. Merge onto I-15 N 5. Use the right lane

Scaling Blockchain by thinking like a biologist

Great line about scaling blockchain. I agree.  So maybe we should start working with biologists and chemists and strategize a way to design and scale blockchain in terms of independent distributed biological nodes.

"Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents. For example, I should not have to know where every dollar in the economy is when I want to buy something from you"

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/arthur-brock-blockchains-major-design-flaw/2016/03/15?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign

Ripcord and Woz and Robotic Digitization

Woz invests in an interesting company called Ripcord.   They just received some funding from former Apple co-founder Woz.   Basically it's robotic process automation for digitizing actual papers and documents.  Great concept. 

Maersk container ship blockchain

Maersk + IBM + blockchain (hyperledger) innovating supply chain container shipping.

Sweden testing blockchain Land registry

Interesting test going on in Sweden in regards to a blockchain Land Registry.  There are some challenges ahead , but it'll be interesting to see what comes of this and what's next. 

Sweden blockchain Land Registry

Qualcomm will now be known for platforms not processors.

Qualcomm changing from a processor driven model to a platform driven model. All talk and just semantics or really a change in the way they operate ?