Blockchain as a service IBM and Microsoft ?

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-blockchain-choices-may-come-down-to-ibm-vs-microsoft

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out , but the decentralized aspect is lost in all of these new prototypes, experiments and alliances. 

IOT + AI equals cost transformation

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-hershey-used-the-cloud-to-deploy-iot-and-machine-learning-without-a-data-scientist/

And they didn't even have a data scientist. The IOT world plus AI for Twizzlers.

The complicated nature of confusing 5G

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/10/what-is-5g-the-laymans-guide/

And Verizon is doing a 5G test pilot in these cities. 
Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Bernardsville, Brockton, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Sacramento, Seattle, and Washington, DC.

What that actually means and how Verizon defines it are unknown.  But 5G is interesting and challenging and exciting.  And coming. 

What are Smart Cities and how are they actually built?

  This youtube webinar goes over what is and what isn't connected in Cambridge, so it's a good primer to what might be the future of smart cities.  The bigger question becomes how do SMBs connect to this ever expanding smart world?

Andrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity

Driving Digitization with Leading IoT Solutions | Jiang Wangcheng, Huawei

Internet of things and smart cities

http://m.scmp.com/tech/social-gadgets/article/2055272/thinxtra-roll-out-internet-things-network-hong-kong-next-year