"We're rethinking the provision of mobility from a clean sheet of paper, without the legacy barriers imposed by the existing industry," Spowers says.
Digital transformation may seem like an astronomical event, but infrastructures evolve over time – overcoming legacy barriers to align with data, application and security requirements.
Despite an entrepreneurial spirit and independence from antiquated legacy systems, barriers to entry are rising.
To be sure, blockchain innovators face barriers: legacy culture, bureaucracy, regulations and more than a few entrenched and deep-pocketed incumbents unable or unwilling to change.
When the prolific actress and activist Ruby Dee died Wednesday at age 91, she left behind a show-business career that spanned seven decades on stage and screen, as well a legacy of breaking down barriers for black performers.
Dean Miller, a marine biologist and science director of the non-profit group Great Barrier Reef Legacy, said he wanted to say to DiCaprio: "We would like to take you to the Great Barrier Reef and show you firsthand what we see, no political or media spin, just the facts from the scientists themselves to show you what is really happening here".
In response, Great Barrier Reef Legacy – a non-profit organisation of scientists, tourism operators, filmmakers, educators and conservationists – made its own offer.
The Legacy10 campaign, which aims to break down barriers to legacy-giving, wants to change the culture so that such donations are not the preserve of the super rich but spread to the middle classes.
Dean Miller, a reef scientist who is the director of media and science for the Great Barrier Reef Legacy, an organization that works to get more scientists out on the water, has filmed transects across this section of the reef over the years, mapping the same route across the coral.
The Great Barrier Reef Legacy now has a link on its website imploring the actor to get in touch.
But scientists from the non-profit environmental organisation Great Barrier Reef Legacy have extended rival offers, saying that the recent Academy Award-winner, and founding member of the notorious Pussy Posse, should visit the reef in a less politically-biased context.
