Tristar Group’s head of IT Adam Lalani explains why he believes Blockchain has the potential to be as disruptive as the Internet.
Back in the mid-90s, when I first had access to the Internet, I couldn’t really understand what the hype was all about.
I was a gamer in those days, so my first use case for the Internet was to find WAD files – custom maps, weapons and characters – for the game Doom, that people posted on their Geocities pages.
Fast-forward a quarter of a century, and the Internet is used for just about everything – banking, communications, shopping, research, news, social networking – limited only by our imaginations.
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