Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #24

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About States of Mind and Multi-Finalities. Gorgeous post by @ribbonfarm

Douglas Rushkoff has given up on fixing the economy. The economy is not broken. It's simply unjust. There's a difference. We have to stop looking at our economy as a broken system, but one that is working absolutely true to its original design. It's time to be progressive -- and this means initiating systemic changes.

We need to empower individuals to express themselves with clarity in the Internet of Emotions.

As Silicon Valley firms look to destroy ‘the existing order’, some European leaders are fighting to develop the industry’s moral compass. This is a real chance to make better decisions, fight fatalism and build a humane future

An inspiration for Spain’s May 15 movement, the sociologist is skeptical about chances for change

Data and Society

On my last morning in Davos, I spotted one of those telepresence robots — the kind Sheldon uses in Big Bang Theory and t…

This morning I awoke to a series of emails which made me realize that the Information Age is dead and we are now in The Age of Noise, Clutter & Spying on Us. And it would appear that adding ...

European e-Identity markets: Reflections and lessons from the last 15 years

Film exploring privacy in the modern world

Start here: clothing and shelter are privacy technologies. We use them to create secluded spaces for ourselves. Spaces w…

It’s easy to love or hate technology, to blame it for social ills or to imagine that it will fix what people cannot. But…

Zeitgeist

When tech giants such as Google and Uber hide their wealth from taxation, they make it harder for us to use technology to improve services

MAYA Design MAYA is a design consultancy and technology research lab. We make complex technology products easier to use, engage in basic research, and prepare for the world of pervasive technology.

‘They just want basic human dignity, no bombs, no fear,’ says Chinese artist as he ends exhibition over law allowing valuables to be taken from refugees

Innovation

Three distinct waves of digital disruption have transformed information economics—and are challenging traditional notions of economies of scale. The new strategies this shift enables have the power to break the compromise between efficiency and innovation and to reshape entire industries.

What if everything about the future of school was the opposite of school? We invited Eli Horowitz and Scott Teplin to co…

GE's Global Innovation Barometer finds that big companies struggle with innovating while also protecting their core business.

The Top 50 Relentlessly Relevant Brands

Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Black Death.

Child prodigies rarely become adult geniuses who change the world. Originality is difficult to encourage but easy to thwart.

Now to New: How to Flip Your Company to Perpetual Beta

Future of work

The race to a $1bn market capitalisation is getting faster and faster. It took the typical S&P 500 firm 20 years to achieve that goal. It took Google eight years, Facebook six years and Uber just three years. Supported by a pullulating base of

Pico Iyer makes the case for a secular sabbath in this meditative excerpt from his new TED Book, The Art of Stillness.

The Future of Work: Awakening the Artist Within

Internet Culture

Take a deep breath and try to keep up with this speaker

OuiShare Rethink & Remix - Nick Grossman - The evolution of the venture

Meaningful collaboration between people and machines must not subvert human creativity, feeling and questioning over speed, profit and efficiency

The State of Digital in 2016

For their iOS 9 release, Apple not only permits, but actively encourages developers to make Apps that remove advertising…

About 75% of all Google's mobile revenue comes from people using Apple devices.

A brief glimpse behind the scenes at how the Internet Archive approaches preserving the web, from its millions of datasets to the role of the Wayback Machine to its changing stance on robots.txt

FinTech

Fintech was every banker’s buzzword at the World Economic Forum, as leaders of the world’s largest financial companies both touted the potential of new innovations and leaned on regulators to control the startups threatening parts of their business.

Two popular payment-processing services now offer small business loans, too: PayPal Working Capital and Square Capital. Read on to learn how they can help.

China’s central bank said it is studying the prospects of issuing its own digital currency and aiming to roll out a product as soon as possible, contending that alternative payment systems can improve the efficiency of global transactions.

By the end of this article, you’re going to understand blockchains in general (and Ethereum, a next-generation blockchai…

AI, Robots, Algorythms

As recently as this month, top AI experts outside Google questioned whether such a victory could be achieved anytime soon.

If robots rise, interest rates will fall.

Professor Minsky laid the foundation for the field by demonstrating the possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.

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