R&D Director of The Future of Storytelling, Hilmar Koch, is my colleague in the Office of the CTO. Hilmar and I have been discussing the future of Autodesk technology and how it fits in with the futures of the industries that Autodesk serves. One possible future includes blockchain, so Hilmar and I put this together.
In his April 12, 2018 Meeting of the Minds email message on the topic of “Dates and Deliverables from Blockchain,” Peter Coffee notes that:
“Exhibiting massive mindshare growth over just the past five years, the concept of blockchain data management has seized the stage of global discussion, in disciplines ranging from finance to industry to scientific research. Bankers look to it for acceleration of transactions, shrinking days to seconds. Manufacturers and shippers look to it for improved consistency and reduced costs in supply chain management. Researchers look to it for reduction of data falsification, saying that the general model’s four main…