Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #23

The very best

First, we had the Internet Era, when a few people could publish online and e-commerce is born.

I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hu…

Looking at history from a new direction

The early consensus coming out of CES is that Amazon Alexa was the star of the show. Not only did the virtual assistant technology and its physical manifestatio

Are you living in a “new power” world or still stuck in the old?

A little parable that explains “Why This.?”

Mark Zuckerberg and his team must transform Facebook into a development shop for drones to deliver the Internet via lasers.

About the failure of Holacracy and Teal organization at Zappos

An exclusive look behind the scenes at Google’s autonomous car testing center

This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. On Wednesday, Jan. 20, Future Tense will ...

Good innovation doesn’t necessarily have to be tied to a product or technology if the value proposition creates value for your customers, and your business model creates value for the company. Good business model innovation starts with your culture. In this post we'll explain how.

Space is brutally egalitarian. When you become separated from your lover, the two of you retain no tighter a physical connection than…

The internet has created a vast new canvas for artists seeking to explore the intersection of physical and digital spaces. In this video essay, Evan Puschak (also known as The Nerdwriter) argues that the best of these artists could help us preserve our humanity as we become increasingly reliant on algorithms to make decisions, and develop aesthetic principles that guide our transition to a more digital world. 

Though she's the example many turn to for guidance on mindfulness practice, Sharon Salzberg didn't always find meditation so easy. She reflects on an early retreat in India, and what it can teach us about letting go of ideals, and having faith in what is.

Political and business leaders gather at Swiss ski resort to discuss issues including robotics, terrorism, migration and inequality

Be inspired by over 500 quotes from some of the greatest business minds of all time - then test your knowledge with the Brilliant Minds Quiz

Innovation

Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a..

After two weeks of torrid voting by some of the authors' passionate supporters, and after a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round based heavily on the quality and quantity of contributions to Innovation Excellence, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2015:

We all are caught up in handling and understanding different management tools. The numbers are accelerating, and if anything it's adding more confusion to the pile we already have. So let’s see if we can help here, step back a little from your favorite tool and look at this just a little more deeply. How…

It’s more than just reinventing the suggestion box.

About hypemasters, innovation snobs, disruption deniers, and chameleons

Mr. Page is hardly the first Silicon Valley chief with a case of intellectual wanderlust, but to a rare degree he has made his company a reflection of his personal fascinations.

Future of work

The Future of Work: Rebooting Work—Programming the Economy for People

A classic, main publication of this year's WEF

Our obsession with efficiency is a product of our overcrowded ecosystem

PwC consultant Mark Chatterton used to be scared to add app founder on his LinkedIn profile. Now side ventures are not only allowed but embraced.

@rwartzman

The utopian workplace is here, complete with roof gardens, therapists and time to nap. Can the employee ever escape?

BY JON WESTENBERG

Internet Culture

Today at USV, we are hosting our 4th semiannual Trust, Safety and Security Summit. Brittany, who manages the USV portfol…

This paper explores how we could approach public sector regulations "the internet way," by harnessing the inverted approach to regulation that the web allows, and asks readers to consider a single, simple question: Where can we replace permission-based rules with information-based rules, granting the freedom to operate in exchange for access to data?

Easily learn programming and computational thinking with the Wolfram Programming Lab environment. Jump in and explore or learn systematically.

The 80–20 Rule Applied to Learning.

INFOGRAPHIC: How the millennial generation will transform the economy – based on research from Goldman Sachs

Don’t leave Snapchat to the millennials! Conquer the app with this guide from Joanna Stern.

FinTech

Big banks are not very profitable

The inexorable rise of Amazon, Google and Apple in finance

Excellent overview by Marcus Swaenepoel

Crypto 2.0 Musings - Blockchain Disruption Evaluation

As most of my readers know by now, my main thesis for the financial services industry is that finserv = fintech — that i…

The distributed ledger technology that started with bitcoin is rapidly becoming a crowdsourced system for verifying transactions of all types. Could it replace central banks, notary publics, and manual vote recounts?

Over the course of 2015, I’ve had the opportunity, to either meet or talk to, some visionary technologists and business …

A nasty fight has torn apart the core software developers of Bitcoin, exposing fundamental differences about the virtual currency’s future direction and raising questions of its long-term viability.

Blockchain Critique: For 2016, Questions of Risks and Rewards

Just for the record - Bitcoin has not failed. I will be discussing this on CNBC and RT on Monday morning. One of the core Bitcoin developers now works for

Oh, the drama, such drama. Last week, longtime Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn declared "the Bitcoin experiment…has failed," and resigned from that community..

Why Microsoft's blockchain service has 20 companies waiting to be accepted

Follow the Stripe blog for product announcements, feature updates, new countries, and technical posts about payments.

My weakly grounded assumption is that central banks will slowly adopt consensus ledger technology and that eventually physical cash will be fully replaced by

AI, Robots, Algorythms

1 year anniversary of awesome post on Artificial Intelligence—the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

The experimental lab wants to be Alphabet's incubator.

Ford made headlines at CES this week when it announced a major partnership that will integrate Amazon's technology into its cars, also following rumors..

Here’s a look at 15 big data and analytics companies that have raised funding over the past six or so months. Most focus on helping companies make sense of their oodles of data, sometimes for customer service, sometimes for IT purposes and sometimes for security reasons. And not all of them are brand new firms.

Post Capitalism

Greatest disruption could be experienced by workers who have so far felt immune to robotic competition, Swiss bank adds

What if the eras of the E.U., high growth in China, expensive oil and newly independent nations’ economic foundations are all over?

I recently had a chance run-in with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for his work with Grameen, a pioneer …

Why 'The System' Is Rigged

Other

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The future has arrived.

Infographic via Ericsson

“Pretend that you killed yourself and you can live again incognito. Imagine what you would do without any attachment to …