I, along with a Robert Hillard and Peter Williams, have a new essay published by Deloitte Insights, Digitalizing the construction industry: A case study in […]
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Your next future
I and a coauthor have a new report out on DU Press: Your next future: Capitalising on disruptive change. Disruption is something we’d been puzzling for […]
Continue readingCryptocurrencies are problems, not features
CBA announced an Ethereum-based bond market solution[ref]James Eyers (24 Jan 2017), Commonwealth Bank puts government bonds on a blockchain, Australia Financial Review.[/ref]) It’s the usual sort of […]
Continue readingYou can’t democratise trust
I have a new post on the Deloitte Digital blog. There’s been a lot of talk about using technology to democratise trust, and much of it shows […]
Continue readingWhy is blockchain so wasteful?
I have a new post up on the Deloitte blog, coauthored with Robert Hillard. As we point out in the post: Bitcoin Miners are being paid somewhere […]
Continue readingCan blockchain save the music industry?
I have a new post up at the Deloitte Digital blog: Can blockchain save the music industry? One of the trends we’re seeing across industry […]
Continue readingBlockchain performance might always suck, but that’s not a problem
I’ve been watching the Bitcoin scaling debate with some amusement, given that my technical background is in distributed AI and operational simulation (with some VR […]
Continue readingBitcoin’s not broken
A lot of high profile Bitcoin people are getting their knickers in a knot as they’re starting to realise that they don’t have any real […]
Continue readingThe problem with platforms in the sharing economy
I have a new post up on the Deloitte Strategy blog.It’s the result of a chat I was having the other day with an economist colleague who opined that […]
Continue readingPlatforms are the new fool’s gold
I have a new post up on the Deloitte Strategy blog, which I wrote with Richard Millar. Platforms are all the rage. In the modern […]
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