Share this postPeter Vander Auwera - Issue #2petervan.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherPeter Vander Auwera - Issue #2PetervanJul 12, 2015Share this postPeter Vander Auwera - Issue #2petervan.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherSharePetervan's Delicacies - Extended versionWhat’s happening in Greece is a great tragedy. Here’s why.Wonderful post. "We are busy entertaining ourselves and each other. We carry music, books, movies, and other distractions on our devices wherever we go. We put much more effort into tuning out what we do not want to hear than listening to what we do. We fill our time with personalized distractions designed to reinforce our own tastes. We are no longer able to understand the differences between what is appealing and what is beautiful. We have lost the skills of rest and reflection"These startups are trying to beat Alzheimer's, cure viral diseases, and kill tumors with gold. One common thread: funding from Peter Thiel.Machines do not dream or have emotions--writers should not engage in science fiction unless they are science fiction writers.Google hasn’t given up on Google Glass, despite the chorus of naysayers early this year when the company closed down the Google Glass Explorer programWe’re in the midst of a jobs crisis, and rapid advances in AI and other technologies may be one culprit. How can we get better at sharing the wealth that technology creates?MIT says it's found a new, more efficient way to blend data mining with the privacy protections of encryption.(This was originally posted on www.shivonzilis.com/machineintelligence) ¶ I spent the last three months learning about …Have you tried Cystal Knows yet? It’s a website that claims to scour the web and your emails (with appropriate permissions) for information that it allows it to build a personality profile on your behalf. In my case I was rather miffed by what it came up with, given that it included the description that…President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.Though robots and artificial intelligence will erase jobs and bring social challenges, they may also provide an opportunity for humanity to uplift itself.Bruce Schneier, a highly-respected security and cryptography expert, thinks that Cameron's proposed encryption ban is extremely dangerous.A new report says giving the governments “exceptional access” to encrypted communications would jeopardize confidential data and critical infrastructure.WHAT I LEARNT WHILST WORKING FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ECKHART TOLLEThe Bits + Blocks Lab is an pop-up incubator hosted by the Harvard iLab, and created by IDEO Futures to explore the futu…Organizations are ready for their next evolutionary step: a step toward self-management, wholeness, and a new sense of purpose.The end of the printed newspaper.There is QUITE a bit of confusion about the adoption of holacracy at Zappos. This lack of clarity is not going to abate …It’s no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix. A McKinsey Quarterly article.Last year, the Clayton Christensen, one of the world's top management thinkers, suggested that, despite being awash in cash, corporations are “failing to invest in innovations that might foster growth.” He considers this trend so insidious and pervasive that he called it the capitalist’s dilemma in Harvard Business Review.This week I was lucky enough to be invited in as guest on the BBC World Service’s “Tech Tent” programme. The show, hoste…The architects who designed BBVA’s new headquarters in Madrid describes the process of formulating the urban and architectural ideas behind the new buildingAn interview with Steve Blank from Innovation Leader.by Jean-Louis Gassée The limitations of algorithmic curation of news and culture has prompted a return to the use of actual humans to select, edit, and explain.PreviousNext