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content page CONTENT 03 Editorial 04 Contents/Imprint 06 Smart People Smart Business 10 Internet unchained: Will the Blockchain change the world? 16 Interview: Don Tapscott, author of The Blockchain Revolution 18 Smartup City Guide: Some of the best places in Europe to start a company 22 Think big! Tesla is building the world’s largest – and smartest – factory 26 Coming home: Why reshoring is one of the hottest trends in the world 32 From toys to tools: How 3D printing is changing the way things are made 38 Guest comment: Arkessa’s John Freeman on why he thinks eSIMs are the next big thing 40 Interview: Atos CEO Thierry Breton and why we will soon all have a supercomputer in our pockets Smart Communication 42 Subscription economy: Everything as a service 46 Nokia reborn: Out of the ashes, a giant Finn reawakens 50 The battle for bandwidth: Choosing the right network for your IoT solution 54 Smart companies: Some of the best and brightest in the IoT marketplace 58 News Smart Lifestyle 60 Smart energy: Why ‘digital ecosystem management’ are the latest buzzwords 64 Google’s grand vision of IoT strategy 68 Infrastructure: Bridges to the future 72 Visible Things Smart Solutions 74 IoT platforms: The glue between the virtual and the physical worlds 78 Guest comment: Alcatel Lucent’s Ingo Schneider on the Industrial Ethernet 80 Column: Bernd Schöne on microkernels and the future of the operating system 84 Learning from ants: Swarm intelligence is bringing lessons from biology to the factory floor 88 Column: John Jones on why we should collect data first and ask questions later 90 Supply chain security: Bridging the gap 92 Smart products 98 Column: Gerd Leonhard on digital ethics and the coming conflict between man and machine 10 Title Story: The Internet Unchained The technology behind the bitcoin is powering a wave of startups and promising experiments across the business and tech sector. It’s not only changing money, it’s changing the world. 64 Google’s Grand Vision of IoT The search giant is pushing for growth in areas beyond online advertising. Alphabet, the Google holding company, is betting big on cloud computing and artificial intelligence, while bidding to become an IoT giant, too. 4
84 How Ants Avoid Traffic Jams Cars that drive by themselves and robots operating autonomously are on their way. Scientists believe they can learn from animal swarms how to avoid getting snarled in digital gridlock. 32 From Toys to Tools Improvements in materials, precision and printing methods are rapidly and radically transforming the way almost every kind of product can be manufactured by just adding one layer after the other. IMPrint Publisher Avnet Silica (Avnet EMG GmbH), Gruberstrasse 60d, 85586 Poing - Germany Production & Project Management RSP Management GmbH, Hohenbrunner Weg 41B, 82024 Taufkirchen, rspitz@rsp-publishing.de pmc active GmbH, Bretonischer Ring 10, 85630 Grasbrunn Tel. 089 / 45 45 577 28, Fax 089 / 45 45 577 0 Project Manager Richard Spitz Editor-in-chief Tim Cole (responsible according to the press laws) Art Director Sara D´Auria, www.inframedesign.de, Harald Sayffaerth, www.01graphics.de Contributors Rainer Claaßen, Eric Doyle, Gerhard Kafka, Gerd Leonard, Ariane Rüdiger, Ingo Schneider, Bernd Schöne, Simon Torrance Picture Shutterstock, fotolia Production Manager Stephan Quinkertz Printing Westermann Managing Director Alan Markovic, Albert Petryszyn, Stephan Quinkertz, Richard Spitz © 2017 pmc active GmbH & RSP Management GmbH nRF52840 PDK WITH FULL BLUETOOTH 5 SUPPORT! A versatile single board dev kit for Bluetooth® low energy, ANT, 802.15.4, and 2.4GHz, using the nRF52840 SoC We provide high quality, easy-to-use and cost effective ultra-low power wireless solutions for your IoT application. www.nordicsemi.com
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