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 ?

Get credits for Amazon Alexa skills

Get credit for building
Amazon Alexa Skills.

I might have to try a combination of Jupyter Labs, Microservices and Amazon Alexa Skills.  Maybe this could do something useful for my startup or just a new cool skill to add to Alexa. 

I will follow up later. 
Try it out.  Get Amazon Credit. 

AI creative Ad Director

http://www.businessinsider.com/mccann-japans-ai-creative-director-creates-better-ads-than-a-human-2017-3

Some amazing things being done when it's about business use and value over just another optimized algorithm. 

Blockchain for shipping containers

http://www.coindesk.com/worlds-largest-shipping-company-tracking-cargo-blockchain/

Blockchain for container ships

5G and MWC and how?

http://www.businessinsider.com/5g-speed-network-lte-2017-3

5G is fast and coming. But when and where and how ?

Blockchain as a service IBM and Microsoft ?

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-blockchain-choices-may-come-down-to-ibm-vs-microsoft

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out , but the decentralized aspect is lost in all of these new prototypes, experiments and alliances. 

IOT + AI equals cost transformation

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-hershey-used-the-cloud-to-deploy-iot-and-machine-learning-without-a-data-scientist/

And they didn't even have a data scientist. The IOT world plus AI for Twizzlers.

The complicated nature of confusing 5G

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/10/what-is-5g-the-laymans-guide/

And Verizon is doing a 5G test pilot in these cities. 
Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Bernardsville, Brockton, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Sacramento, Seattle, and Washington, DC.

What that actually means and how Verizon defines it are unknown.  But 5G is interesting and challenging and exciting.  And coming.