We’re working in a more and more networked way. Much of the work won’t be in batch mode, nor should it be. It’s good to think in a hyper-networked way, the same way Ethernet pioneer Bob Metcalfe, who’s on the board of knowledge graph + blockchain company Origin.Trail.io, has pointed the way forward. The big efficiency payoff will be in shared knowledge (data and logic) for such applications as supply chain.

Individuals are able to choose what kinds of communication relating to their private life they carry on through which media.

Clashes regarding access to information held by internet services by, for example, the police, or the use of personal social media data for marketing purposes emerge cycli-cally. And yet several studies show that the explosive growth of social media goes hand in hand with a change in the perception of these prob-lems.