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What Blockchain Can’t Do

Harvard Business

To link an entry on the blockchain to an actual, real-life baby, we need to give the baby a physical identifier through a physical tag, or in a more futuristic world, a small chip or digital genome record that links the baby to its digital record. And this is where blockchain falls down.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).