China has imposed partial lockdowns in Shanghai and Shenzhen as it grapples with a surge in COVID-19 cases, raising concerns of new global supply chain disruptions and threatening the country’s economic growth target. Economists warned of massive disruptions for manufacturers due to port, airport and factory closures as the country’s richest regions go into lockdowns. …
There are interesting parallels between blockchain supply chain and containerization and the impacts on the world and their inventors. Blockchain supply chain should have multi-trillion dollar impacts and containerization has had multi-trillion dollar impacts. Both improve the efficiency, speed and scale of trading. Both have made the inventors very rich. Shipping containers are considered one …
Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology has the potential to affect every industry. Trust, inventory and reconciliation Decentralization is valuable for resolving “the cost of trust.” The world is burdened with enormous costs because people can’t trust each other. Skyscrapers are filled with accountants who are constantly reconciling their ledger with the ledger of the other company …
Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and customized, allowing researchers to easily collect reliable data for short-term and long-term studies. This new approach to manufacturing may one day allow researchers to rapidly design …