Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #18

Innovation

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

The very purpose of innovation is to change things up, to move the processes forward, and to disrupt the status quo. However, “Innovation for the sake of

Future of work

Freelancer's Union founder argues that the lack of portable benefits is one of the biggest impediments holding independent workers back.

Workplaces need more walls, not fewer.

The Truth about Performance Reviews and Other Corporate Bullsh*t

Internet Culture

"Rebel Geeks-Give Us Back Our Data" a film by @evgenymorozov Compelling. Important. 

Technology researcher and thinker Evgeny Morozov believes the entire discussion around cool, new innovative technology is a giant distraction from the most i...

A whole slew of labor platforms have come up over the last couple of years, powering what is widely referred to as the G…

Note: This essay co-authored with Jason Smale

What you know is worth nothing – here’s how to fix that

What might the world might look like in 50 years if all the potential Techonomy sees in tech were realized? It's a whimsical but truly optimistic vision.

Can bitcoin give rise to a cryptographic utopia?

FinTech

Quite a bit of news in the alternative lending platform ecosystem, notably with Funding Circle announcing it has floated…

The financial services industry is, after much wringing of hands about data security, moving computing operations to the cloud to save money, improve operations, increase agility, gain access to large-scale resources and improve security.

Eileen Burbidge

This article contains an analysis of the best practices for FinTech startups to become unicorns.

Currency Cloud CEO Mike Laven says fintech companies have a lot of mind share, but not a lot of market share.

The article talks about 63 Useful APIs Across 12 Segments to Supercharge Your Product

AI, Robots, Algorythms

From 2014, but still highly relevant.

Speech by Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England and Executive Director, Monetary Analysis and Statistics about robots replacing humans during the next few decades.

Google announced today the Cloud Vision API, which makes available to the general public their Deep Learning algorithms …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has never been particularly shy about his fear of killer robots, but now he seems to be doing something about it. Today, Musk and a group of partners announced the formation of...

Robots are seen as a replacement for workers who do society's "dirty" jobs, but Dan Hill says robotic infrastructure has much wider implications

The German sportswear giant makes a major robot-powered leap in design and production techniques.

This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Thursday, Dec. 10, Future Tense will host

The Reality Editor is a Minority Report style AR app that makes programming your smart home as easy as connecting the dots.

About the Rise of the Chief Analytics Officer. By Nova Spivack. Nova is co-founder and CEO at Bottlenose. A quick search on LinkedIn reveals thousands of professionals in the United States now hold the recently established

Who here remembers taking computer programming in school? Whether you learned programming by punching holes in a never ending series of cards, or by writing simple DOS or other computer language commands, the fact remained that computers needed an incredibly precise set of instructions to accomplish a task. The more complicated [...]

The race is on to find machines with exponentially more powerful capabilities than today’s computers.

China needs advanced robotics to help balance its economic, social, and technological ambitions with continued growth.

Other

Derek Sivers: I spent three months, working full-time, to write and practice a brand new talk for this big conference.But just a few days before the conference, I tested my new talk on friends.They all said it sucked.I agreed.

California’s Silicon Valley runs the show when it comes to successful tech companies. So why has the old world failed to produce a thriving digital industry to rival the US?

This post has been corrected.  The Finnish government is currently drawing up plans to introduce a national basic income. A final proposal won’t be presented until November 2016, but if all goes to schedule, Finland will scrap all existing benefits and instead hand out €800 ($870) per month—to everyone. It sounds far-fetched, but it’s looking likely that...

Few things can tell us more about an architect than where they chose to live and work. For Frank Lloyd Wright, that place was Taliesin, his home and studio

Why the neural net project creating wild visions has meaning for art, science, philosophy — and our view of reality

Stephen Wolfram shares what he learned in researching Ada Lovelace’s life, writings about the Analytical Engine, and computation of Bernoulli numbers.