Blockchain Revolution

Chapter 6: The Ledger of Things: Animating the Physical World
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. Not their real names. This story is based on discussions with individuals familiar with the situation.
2
. Primavera De Filippi, “It’s Time to Take Mesh Networks Seriously (and Not Just for the Reasons You Think),”
Wired, January 2, 2014.
3
. Interview with Eric Jennings, July 10, 2015.
4
. Ibid.
5
. Interview with Lawrence Orsini, July 30, 2015.
6
. Don predicted the development of such networks in Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Macrowikinomics:
New Solutions for a Connected Planet (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2010, updated 2012).
7
. Interview with Lawrence Orsini, July 30, 2015.
8
. Puja Mondal, “What Is Desertification? Desertification: Causes, Effects and Control of Desertification,” UNEP:
Desertifcation, United Nations Environment Programme, n.d.;
https://desertification.wordpress.com/category/ecology-environment/unep/, accessed September 29, 2015.
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. www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/, as of December 1, 2015.
10
. Cadie Thompson, “Electronic Pills May Be the Future of Medicine,” CNBC, April 21, 2013;
www.cnbc.com/id/100653909; and Natt Garun, “FDA Approves Edible Electronic Pills That Sense When You
Take Your Medication,” Digital Trends, August 1, 2012; www.digitaltrends.com/home/fda-approves-edible-
electronic-pills/.
11
. Mark Jaffe, “IOT Won’t Work Without Artificial Intelligence,” Wired, November 2014;
www.wired.com/insights/2014/11/iot-wont-work-without-artificial-intelligence/.
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. IBM, “Device Democracy,” 2015, 4.
13
. Allison Arieff, “The Internet of Way Too Many Things,” The New York Times, September 5, 2015.
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. IBM, “Device Democracy,” 10.
15
. Interview with Dino Mark Angaritis, August 11, 2015.
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. Interview with Carlos Moreira, September 3, 2015.
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. Ibid.
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. Interview with Michelle Tinsley, June 25, 2015.
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. Ibid.
20
. McKinsey Global Institute, “The Internet of Things: Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype,” June 2015.
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. Interview with Eric Jennings, July 10, 2015.
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. IBM Institute for Business Value, “The Economy of Things: Extracting New Value from the Internet of
Things,” 2015.
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. Cadie Thompson, “Apple Has a Smart Home Problem: People Don’t Know They Want It Yet,” Business
Insider, June 4, 2015; www.businessinsider.com/apple-homekit-adoption-2015-6.
24
. McKinsey Global Institute, “The Internet of Things.”
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. Interview with Eric Jennings, July 10, 2015.
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. IBM, “Device Democracy,” 9.
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. Ibid., 13.
28
. McKinsey Global Institute, “The Internet of Things.” MGI defined nine settings with value potential.
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. www.wikihow.com/Use-Uber.
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. http://consumerist.com/tag/uber/page/2/.
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. Mike Hearn, “Future of Money,” Turing Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 23, 2013, posted September
28, 2013; www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4PAMFPo5Y&feature=youtu.be.
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. McKinsey, “An Executive’s Guide to the Internet of Things,” August 2015;
www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Business_Technology/An_executives_guide_to_the_Internet_of_Things?
cid=digital-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1508.