Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #20

The very best

Steven Johnson sits down for a discussion about music, imagination, and art

From killer robots, to runaway sentience, there's a lot of FUD that needs clearing up.

Until last year, the number of students in my classes at MIT numbered 50 or so. Less than twelve months later, I have just completed my first class with 50,000 registered participants. They came from

With a concept straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia, China has gamified obedience to the State. China has created a social tool named Sesame Credit which gives people a score for how good a citizen they are. The system measures how obediently citizens follow the party line, pulling data from social networks and online purchase histories.

Our coworkers are the humans that that we spend most of our time with and, damn it, it should be fun.    

What are the challenges and opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what impact will it have on business, governments and people?

From September 2015 to December 2015, I took Stanford University’s CS183C course — Technology-enabled Blitzscaling — tau…

Innovation

Navigating Complexity – Hold onto Your Core!

Third Space Thinking | ABOUT THIRD SPACE

It needs to be adaptive.

Drawing A Line Under It

Big Data News, Events, and Expert Opinion

Future of work

Confucius is quoted as saying, "When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself." ...and yet we reinforce our "us vs them" in response to real human tragedies in Syria, Paris, San Bernardino.  It's hard…

New Yorkers, desperate to carve out some personal space at work and on the street, have resorted to wearing silent headphones as a “Do Not Disturb” sign.

Since the past few years, there have been many voices that have come out in support of "Intrapreneurs" and encourage large organizations to create the culture at work for intrapreneurship to

Internet Culture

Millions of people are refusing to let intrusive, distracting, or irrelevant ads load on our devices. Consumers should seize the opportunity to demand a more mutually beneficial relationship with online advertisers.

The power of context

@MarkBonchek

In a strong defense of encryption, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that there was no trade-off between privacy and national security when it comes to encryption.

FinTech

From point-of-sale solutions to money transfers, payments makes up one of the largest categories within the larger fin tech industry.

An annual retail banking forecast of trends compiled from 100 global financial services leaders and industry analysts.

t has previously accused of “scamming” customers.

By Bernard Lunn Jokes about evil bankers got a new lease of life after the financial crisis. Bankers were evil and old and tech startups were good and young. PR milked this for all it was worth. However when big money rushes in to Fintech, it is worth paying attention to the reality below the hype.…

About Blockchain Propaganda

In July Bitcoin Magazine reported that researchers and entrepreneurs at the MIT Media Lab had started the development of a new...

Review of the blockchain within financial services. A strategic analysis by William Mougayar.

With FinTech use growing dramatically, EY surveyed 10,000 digitally active people to see what’s driving adoption. #EYFinTechAdoptionIndex

An employee note sent to Business Insider reveals JPM's major focus on technology.

Palantir, the data analytics platform used by government agencies and law enforcement pocketed $880 million in new funding, according to a filing from the..

This article contains an overview of the FinTech industry in Singapore with examples of FinTech startups, investors, incubators and conferences.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

== Another summons to resigned despair ==Conspiracy theories abound.  They erupt out of human nature, it seems, and your ethnicity or caste or political leanings only affect which direction you credit with devilish cleverness, secret power and satanic values. For sure, as a science fiction author I can concoct plausible schemes and plots with the best of them!  Indeed, let me add that some real life cabals are so blatant and proudly obvious that you just have to admit – sometimes “they” are completely real and up to awful mischief.

Before Skynet can become self-aware, before the robots can rise up, we need a system in place to safely pursue research into artificial intelligence. Or so argues Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google's parent company, and Jared Cohen, the head of its tech-minded think tank, Google Ideas. Schmidt has long been bullish on the prospects for the...

The second crypto war is not about crypto door Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Associate professor privacy & security RU Nijmegen / Scientific Director Privacy

The machines that replace us do not have to have superintelligence to execute a takeover with overwhelming impacts. They…

The imminent need for basic income in recognition of our machine-driven future

Real leaders create economies.

Earlier this year, we published the first Interview on Kids and the IoT. Below is a re-publishing of an another in an oc…

Post Capitalism

The average American worker earns less today than 40 years ago. The average CEO makes 350 times more than the average worker. Something's got to give...

Can The Big Banks Get On A Better Track?

On the origins of corporate evil—and idiocy

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