The blockchain allows our smart devices to speak to each other better and faster.

Bitcoin is just one example of something that uses a blockchain.

I am pro-technology that improves the lives of many people in any way possible, and I think the blockchain has the potential to do that.

As a portfolio manager, when do you start advising to your clients that they have some cryptocurrency exposure? When will there be an index fund, a mutual fund of cryptocurrencies? It will happen.

Cryptocurrencies are just one example of decentralized technologies.

GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.