Technology forecasting is hard, even for experts. A look at well-known misses offers useful habits for business planning. Predictions that missed “Spam will be solved in two years.” At the World Economic Forum in 2004, Bill Gates predicted that spam would be eliminated within two years. Two decades later, email filtering is a major industry…

A blockchain is a shared, tamper-evident record kept across multiple parties, with no single owner who can quietly change history. Where it can add value – Supply chain traceability: tracking goods, origin, and handling across multiple companies – Provenance and authenticity: proving that a document, product, or digital asset is genuine. Gartner lists digital provenance…