Web3 is a new frontier of internet architecture emphasizing decentralization and user control. This text for MBA students and industry professionals explores key Web3 concepts, starting from foundational principles and moving to advanced topics like blockchain, smart contracts, tokenomics, and DeFi. The book takes a clear, practical approach to demystify the tech behind NFTs and DAOs as well as the complex regulatory landscape. It confronts challenges of blockchain scalability, a barrier t...

This book takes the technological revolution and industrial changes as the background. The timeline uses the timeline to explain the path of changes in standard concepts since the millennium, showing the scientific system and gradually becoming the focus of the people. This book refers to the classics of a number of standard theories, introduces a number of standards and its theoretical content, and combines the industrial observation experience and typical cases accumulated by the author ...

This book mainly introduces the basic theory and physical characteristics of photoelectric materials, the preparation technology of photoelectric components, the working principle, the latest application, the latest progress of photoelectric materials and devices technology and the correlation with other technologies. The content mainly involves the theoretical basis of photoelectric materials, micro-nano photoelectric materials and devices, semiconductor luminescent materials and devices,...

"Unlock the Potential of Blockchain" provides a comprehensive insight into the revolutionary blockchain technology. This guide simplifies complex ideas, guiding readers from blockchain basics to its vast applications across numerous sectors, including finance, healthcare, supply chains, and media. Offering a balanced perspective on blockchain's challenges and benefits, it's an enlightening tour of the blockchain universe. Learn about blockchain's evolution, its disruption of tradit...

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times).You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geo...

How companies can gain strategic advantage by developing blockchain capabilities.Blockchain is far more than cryptocurrency. Regarded for a decade as complex and with limited application, blockchain has now matured to be on the verge of fully realizing its disruptive potential. In Enterprise Strategy for Blockchain, business strategy expert Ravi Sarathy shows how companies can gain competitive advantage by developing and deploying blockchain capabilities. ...

The world of blockchain and Web3 can often seem like an impenetrable fortress from the outside—a cacophony of technical jargon, complex whitepapers, and bewildering price charts. When I began my own journey from software development into this space, I experienced this sense of overwhelm firsthand. I saw a technology with the profound potential to redefine trust, ownership, and the very architecture of the internet, yet it was obscured by a barrier of complexity. It was from this frustratio...

“Magisterial. . . . Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.”—SalonHailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound statement: Computing is turning into a utility, and the effects of this transition will ultimately change society as completely as the advent of cheap elec...

A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data—and our ability to deal with its effects.2021 Financial Times Best Book of the YearWe are living in the first exponential age.High-tech innovations are created at dazzling speeds; technological forces we barely understand remake our homes and workplaces; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies....

"Unlock the Potential of Blockchain" is your comprehensive guide to the transformative world of blockchain technology. This book unravels complex concepts, taking you on a journey from the fundamentals of blockchain to its applications in a multitude of sectors including finance, healthcare, supply chains, and media. With a balanced view on the challenges and benefits of this technology, it offers you an unbiased perspective into the blockchain universe. Navigate the evolution of blockchai...

Financial Management in the Digital Economy adopts an integrated approach to synthesize the various areas in finance into a consolidated framework and implements the theories and practices in the world of digital economy. The first part of this book extends the fundamentals of asset management to digital assets, and also covers topics like cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The next part of the volume discusses the concept of financial inclusion, digital innovations and technology-e...

How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun.This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing...