Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #17

The very best

Real transformations happen when people can move past assumptions and confront their own realities…

We have great expectations about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Those expectations are based on the ways we have so far u…

"Solving" a problem in a vacuum is a waste of time and money. Worse, it distracts from the way innovation actually occurs.

Machine learning works spectacularly well, but mathematicians aren’t quite sure why.

Researchers are uncovering the hidden laws that reveal how the Internet grows, how viruses spread, and how financial bubbles burst.

Everything around us is changing faster than we could ever imagine. While many business leaders are embracing the change, there are those who are still trying

Innovation

What is Participative Innovation? And how does it intersect with Open Innovation with the Crowd?

By Saul Kaplan originally appearing on the Guardian Media Network site and It’s Saul Connected.

New patterns of innovation are emerging

This is the second in a series about the changing models of corporate innovation co-authored with Evangelos Simoudis. Ev…

Future of work

As part of our report on the future of work, we take a peek into a world where your boss is tracking you, your neighbour is a robot, and it’s cool to be old…

Internet Culture

How I lost, and found, my focus.

With 360-degree videos, fans of the performing arts can feel what it’s like to be in the middle of the Philadelphia Orchestra or the Paris Opera Ballet.

FinTech

Data and insights on Insurance Tech. Stay up to date on this trillion dollar industry. News and data on disruptive companies, investors, and more.

Recently we had ConsenSys Tokens Week*. We focused on our token issuance and management system, spearheaded by decentral…

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Volkswagen’s recent emissions scandal highlighted the power that algorithms wield over our everyday lives. As technology advances and more everyday objects are driven almost entirely by software, it's become clear that we need a better way to catch cheating software and keep people safe. A solution could be to model regulation of the software industry after the US...

Other

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