The global economy is a complex, interconnected web of billions of individuals and businesses that exchange items of monetary value. Innovations like online banking and brokerages have made it easier than ever to engage in financial transactions from home. But...
Globalization has brought sweeping changes to the availability of goods and services to a consumer. Previous methods of identity verification (prior to the 1980's) required waiting in long lines at a government office, as overworked clerks sifted through dozens of...
The year 2020 has witnessed a global pandemic akin to that of the Spanish flu pandemic 100 years ago. With millions sick, countries have turned to emerging technology to dampen the virus’s effects. Blockchain’s decentralized nature is the solution to many of the...
Since May 25, 2020, the world has been shaken by the killing of George Floyd, a black man who was asphyxiated by a Minneapolis police officer. Tens of thousands of people have marched in protests, expressing their discontent at the systemic discrimination of...
Christian's Take Has Facebook’s data breach caused ad executives to find alternative avenues to reach their intended masses? Christian Ferri, president and CEO of Geer, believes blockchain technology has an answer. Ferri believes blockchain technology will allow...
The properties of blockchain, like immutability and being a distributed network, makes it an attractive underlying platform for future innovations. It might be too early to say, but blockchain might prove to be a technology as disrupting as the internet was. The...
Has Facebook’s data breach caused ad executives to find alternative avenues to reach their intended masses? Christian Ferri, president and CEO of BlockStar, believes blockchain technology has an answer. Ferri believes blockchain technology will allow consumers and...
What if there was a way to drastically improve the likelihood that breast cancer could be detected early? Mammograms are a good start, but even regular mammograms are far from a guarantee. Their false negative rate is alarmingly high; doctors only detect cancer 80...
This past month has brought me on an unexpected journey — into the world of blockchain. I'd known from the outset back in July when I was introduced to a merry band of sustainability gurus that blockchain would play an important role in the fashioning of a...