Every company uses software, obviously. There isn’t a technology industry keynote that passes without a besuited evangelist telling us that “every business is a technology business” — and they may even pepper in the old “hey Uber has no cars, Amazon has no bookstores” chestnut if they really want to check all the boxes.

If you could measure the progress of a concept by how much it’s talked about, then blockchain would already be an everyday reality for business.

Once upon a time, a tiny creature was exposed to extraordinary forces, grew rapidly and exponentially until it became an enormous beast, smashing stores and office buildings and sending Tokyo into terror. Back in 1954, the beast was Godzilla. In 2018, we call it Amazon.

Aircraft parts manufacturers got a rude welcome back to work Monday with the announcement that Boeing is going into business with France’s Safran to make auxiliary power units. It’s one of the more surprising developments yet in Boeing’s drive to shake up its supply chain, which has featured heavy pressure on suppliers to reduce costs, as well as moves to in-source production of such disparate elements as seats, wings and avionics components.