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Lawrence Sowell and Travis Jank show off Krambu’s new blockchain power distribution unit at their R&D lab in Coeur d’Alene. (JUDD WILSON/Press)

Lawrence Sowell and Travis Jank show off Krambu’s new blockchain power distribution unit at their R&D lab in Coeur d’Alene. (JUDD WILSON/Press)

October 9, 2018

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Changing the world, blockchain by blockchain
October 9, 2018 1 a.m.

Changing the world, blockchain by blockchain

COEUR d’ALENE — Imagine a world without the internet, without smartphones, without wireless technologies. The world of the 1980s was a clickity-clack world of typewriters, ringing phones mounted to walls, and cords stretched like trip hazards across kitchen floors while kids waited for commercials to be over so they could watch cartoons.