Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #22

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You DO Have to Go Back to Work, But You DON’T Have to Go Back to Business As Usual

Education Is Not The Answer (Part 1)

In the 1980’s, the ultimate television president, Ronald Reagan, went to Berlin and implored Mr. Gorbachev to “tear down…

Or, how not to waste your life on stuff that doesn’t matter.

7 Suggestions for Those Who Want To Create Beautiful Businesses

I'm currently doing a PhD (at Goldsmiths, University of London) with working title “Realtime image and sound synthesis a…

It’s not just institutions that failed people. It’s also people that failed institutions. Here’s why.

26 Disruptive Tech Trends for the Rest of the Decade

Our world has changed: many of the fundamentals that served us so well for so long evolving into new, uncertain and impermanent structures. Technology is one of the most visible manifestations of this change, but the change is much more widespread than that: the underlying sociology and, possibly, psychology has changed too. The notion of…

Innovation

Density and transportation have spurred new ideas since before the industrial revolution.

Innovation isn’t all hard work or dumb luck: It’s about paying attention.

Future of work

Design leaders at Google, Microsoft, Autodesk, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, Lunar, Huge, New Deal, and fuseproject predict 18 new design jobs.

Internet Culture

Being able to make use of people’s personal information is intrinsic to most visions of a digital future. But are consumers really getting their money’s worth?

Gerd Leonhard is an acclaimed European futurist; his popular video was recently featured at IEET and he will soon be an IEET contributing writer. To introduce him to our audience, I interviewed him on his forecasts, ideas, and values.IEET: Can you expand on your comment in the video, where you say: ”we will see more changes in the next 20 years than we did in the previous 300” ?

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, lawmakers passed a powerful counter-terrorism bill amending the visa waiver program in the US. The new law, known as HR 158, attempts to address real threats posed by the Islamic State—but in the process, it’s unfairly branded journalists, humanitarian aid workers, business executives...

FinTech

Bitcoin has been roughly doubling each year (in terms of the number of transactions). But in its current form, the netwo…

Payments and Banking in 2016 : Year of the Plumber ?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance affiliate is seeking at least 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) in a second round of fundraising ahead of a planned initial public offering, a person familiar with the matter said.

A platform is defined by its use cases. If great apps appear, the platform is judged a success. If not, the platform disappears into the dustbin of computer history. So I went looking for the emerging DAPPS (decentralized apps) coming out of the Ethereum platform. DAPPS look like normal apps. That is deliberate. Ethereum made…

The social media service known for disappearing photos wants to manage your finances. Snapchat is developing a service that would let users invest their money through the messaging app and have it managed by algorithms, according to a report from Reuters. The news service didn't have any details on how it would work, but sources said such...

30 Under 30 alums John and Patrick Collison (still just 25 and 27) have built Stripe into a $5 billion mobile payment juggernaut. Their real goal is to shape the future of digital commerce.

Blockchain could be critical for governments implementing responsive open data

Payments for Every Device

The technology underlying Bitcoin has inspired a new flavor of techno utopianism that could spell the end of centralized…

A feature interview with global futurist Daniel Burrus regarding several themes related to bitcoin, FinTech and the broader landscape of technological change.

The chatter says Banks are facing disruption and Big Tech are the masters of the universe who will reap the rewards. A closer look at the Redecentralization wave shows us that it could be as disruptive to Big Tech as Banks. Imagine a search engine where you did not need to invest $ billions in…

This article contains an overview of the Australian FinTech ecosystem with some of the most interesting startups and successful accelerators/incubators.

The network effect could be utilized better by the financial services industry, says Jessica Ellerm. It's a key ingredient in the secret sauce.

In this fintech fight, the bitcoin and blockchain companies in New York City have a strong Wall Street hook while in San Francisco the startups are attracting more venture capital money with their consumer-focused approach.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Nike prides itself on innovation, and as it works to hit its goal of $50 billion in annual sales by 2020, it's undoubtedly thinking about what innovations will get it there. Two recent documents from the US patent office offer a glimpse into what the world's largest sportswear brand has in the works, including one intriguing hint that...

Shivon Zilis: Most of these machine intelligence startups take well-worn machine intelligence techniques, some more than a decade old, and apply them to new data sets and workflows. It’s still true that big companies, with their massive data sets and contact with their customers, have inherent advantages—though startups are finding a way to enter. Achieving…

Post Capitalism

Other

A few news stories make it clear that the venerable automobile industry is going to wind up sliced, diced, and consumed by the new economics and technologies

This week Forbes published its annual 30 Under 30 list: 600 of the best and brightest across a wide range of industry sectors.

When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a culturally universal short gap.