IBM innovations that will change our lives in the next some years.
In the global supply chain, products (manufactured, food, medicines, etc.) pass through many intermediaries before reaching the end customer. So many steps conducive to counterfeiting or other types of fraud. IBM estimates that, in the next five years, what it calls "cryptographic anchors" will develop, like tiny guardians integrated into our everyday objects. These cookies will be linked to a block chain to guarantee the origin and authenticity of certain products as well as certain foods or medicines. IBM has developed. IBM Research is working on these tamper-proof links between the physical world and the block chain which records and certifies all transactions in a decentralized way. It could be drops of edible ink or, why not, a tiny computer like the one IBM has developed. Its size is less than that of a grain of rice; it incorporates a million transistors and would only cost a few tens of euro cents to produce. It could monitor, analyse and even act on data. “These ...