Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #19

The very best

Visionary post by Brett King with some novel scenarios. Goes way beyond the standard "end of branch banking" narrative.

About the future of digital nomads (and remote workers) in the next 20 years by @levelsio who used public data to show actual social and demographic trends and extrapolated them to make a guesstimate how the rise of remote workers will affect the world in 2035

Why every company needs corporate rebels and why in a rapidly changing world those who copy the past have doomed their future.

Amazing analysis by Venkatesh Rao. From May 2015, but only discovered now. An extract: "The collapse of organization charts in our thinking reflects a deeper collapse of the underlying imagined organizational realities. The organization chart is shrinking because we are slowly recognizing what has always been true: there is much less “organization” to chart than we’d like."

All the trends for 2016 in one place. Welcome to the shift 2020 Brain Food #13 newsletter with a special edition on Tech Trends in 2016, carefully curated by …

"avoid the bridge" and "quality is the new cool" > By Steve Sinifsky > When it comes to innovation and roadmaps there’s nothing special about the start of a new calendar year other than a convenient time to checkpoint the past year and to regroup for the next. Everyone’s feeds are going to be filled with “best of”, “worst of”, and “predictions” for 2016 and those are always fun.…

Bill Gates shares six stories from 2015 that show how the world is getting better.

Innovation

How not to create “bright but insecure sheep”

PSFK Labs determines 15 key trends that will shape tomorrow’s creative businesses in the future of innovation

Peter Hinssen interviews technology futurist, start-up founder and a fintech industry expert Brett King about disruption, the shrinking workforce, corporate culture, start-ups, transparency and the skills companies need to stay relevant.

By @ScottDAnthony

Innovation trend 2016: innovation going cynical. Here are 8 song-and-dance routines that corporations use when trying to look innovative. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Future of work

You can have millions of subscribers on YouTube and still be flat broke.

FlowingData on what a day in the life of an American looks like.

Internet Culture

this is the logical endgame of the democratization of culture and the dreaded cult of inclusivity, which insists that all of us must exist under the same umbrella of corporate regulation — a mandate that dictates how we should express ourselves and behave.

A temporary WhatsApp shutdown is not even close to the craziest thing happening with the Brazilian internet right now. If Brazil’s conservative Congress..

FinTech

Federal regulators, in a significant shift in how financial securities will be distributed and traded, have approved a plan to issue stock via the Internet.

Wall Street needs millennials' money and is trying out new ways to reach them.

Atom Bank, Mondo, Tandem, and Fidor are among the investor-backed digital banking startups in the UK applying for or with full banking licenses.

The R3-led blockchain consortium is to close applications to new member banks as 12 more financial institutions sign up and will instead concentrate its efforts on recruiting non-banks to the coalition.

The co-founder of PayPal and Affirm, who resigned from the board of Yahoo last week, emphasized his support for embattled CEO Marissa Mayer.

Banks must be held accountable for criminality

AI, Robots, Algorythms

As humanity debates the threats and opportunities of advanced artificial intelligence, we are simultaneously enabling that technology through the increasing..

The U.S. military’s scientific and technological wing, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is essentially tasked with constructing the future. Robotic soldiers and artificial intelligence (AI) have both been in development for some time, as have instantaneous language translation systems and advanced contact lenses.

Physicist John Martinis could deliver one of the holy grails of computing to Google—a machine that dramatically speeds up today’s applications and makes new ones possible.

Other

Most of us haven't quite realized there is something extraordinary happening. Silently, people are being woken up and are realizing how crazy it is to live in this society. With the advent of the Internet, the small are no longer speechless. There is a voice.

How APIs are Disrupting Business