ICO, IPO & Blockchain — The Buzz is wearing off | At Jumpstart HQ in Hong Kong, we get inundated daily (including weekends) with emails, messages and press releases full of buzzwords, in particular ICO, IPO and blockchain (Is there anything that can’t be linked to it? Yes, but you wouldn’t know from all the buzz around it). For this issue, we decided to face these buzzwords head on to see what’s behind the buzz and what’s actually going on in Asia when it comes to these words. Turns out, the answer is: a lot.

How Supercomputers Are Affecting the Environment
Supercomputers may be our glimpse into the future. Renowned computer scientist John von Neumann proposed the term “technological singularity” to describe the point of development at which it is impossible to predict the changes that technology will bring to human civilization.