The interesting part of this to me is that they’re looking at using this tiny, cheap computer for tracking items throughout the supply chain, with a unified view of all of the handoffs.

And the reason that interests me is that in my current WIP, there’s a primitive mechanical/magical computer called the Realm Ledger which does exactly that, among other things. The speculative element is “what if companies didn’t own their own computers, but it was all handled centrally’?

Which isn’t a very interesting question just by itself, so I have a bunch of people trying to break into the Realm Ledger and subvert it, and another bunch of people trying to stop them.

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