Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #28

The very best

What You Need To Know About Disruption: John Hagel. Highlights from latest research by Deloitte Center for the Edge on Disruption Patterns

New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter. About team dynamics and psychological safety

A Conversation With Stephen Wolfram. Massive read.

The big problem with the global digital economy.

Douglas Rushkoff, in his usual expansive and incredibly erudite manner, dissects the digital economy and points a more considered way forward.

Science of life. 

s the compilable life worth living?

Data and Society

Great insight: "Your iPhone is not a safe, it is an extension of our mind". Very good article on the Apple - FBI Case. Should Apple have to comply with a court order compelling the company to write code that would allow the FBI to crack into a terrorist’s iPhone? Apple ...

The privacy crisis is a disaster of our own making – and now the tech firms who gathered our data are trying to make money out of privacy

“The Home Office just doesn’t do privacy. It does security and ever more intrusive powers they claim will make us safer, but not privacy. The fact that they see simply changing the name of one section to include the word ‘privacy’ as addressing the fundamental concerns about privacy protections in this bill is breath-taking,”

We are living in a world in which a handful of high-tech companies, sometimes working hand-in-hand with governments, are not only monitoring much of our activity, but are also invisibly controlling more and more of what we think, feel, do and say. The technology that now surrounds us is not just a harmless toy; it has also made possible undetectable and untraceable manipulations of entire populations – manipulations that have no precedent in human history and that are currently well beyond the scope of existing regulations and laws. The new hidden persuaders are bigger, bolder and badder than anything Vance Packard ever envisioned. If we choose to ignore this, we do so at our peril.

Three Visions of Technological Progress

Beijing wants to identify subversives before they strike.

Zeitgeist

Any denial of academic freedom is a blow struck against the meaning of a university. The irony today is that some of the most worrying attacks on academic freedom have been coming from inside universities.

BARCELONA ( By Eric Auchard, Reuters) – Ericsson and Amazon’s web services division (AWS) said on Monday they have agreed a deal that allows Ericsson, the world’s leading maker of mobile network gear, to act as a bridge for its telecom operator customers to use public cloud services.

Innovation

Excellent very long longread on a possible framework for patents and copyrights in the Digital Age. (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong.)

The first step toward coming up with better ideas is defining our terms when we talk about innovation, entrepreneurs, an…

Here’s what we know.

From autonomous vehicles to building codes, Sidewalk Labs is thinking about problems and solutions that could shape cities for centuries.

Future of work

An anonymous letter to Senior Leadership. This is why your superstars cannot stay.

Online labor platforms make it easier to find and harder to retain talented people. They give companies a real opportunity to transform the way they recruit, develop, and engage their employees.

To benefit from the automation revolution we need a universal basic income, the slashing of working hours and a redefinition of ourselves without work

Internet Culture

Nobody owes you shit.

FinTech

Fintech: time to change strategy

Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee and about 70 other members of the bitco…

The booming popularity of the Fintech term has attracted many firms to jump on the bandwagon but... Is all Fintech really Fintech?

Over 70+ strategics are invested in blockchain & bitcoin startups including BBVA, Seagate, Rakuten, and NYSE Euronext.

This month, as part of our Made of Money series looking at the future of money and nationhood, we’ve compiled a reading …

Chris Skinner reviews the top 10 trends in banking innovation according to Efma.

Whizzy startups will face a tougher funding fight

Real-time systems are an important first step toward on-demand payments, but the industry already needs to work on the next step—interoperability.

In a rare all-access interview, the head of JPMorgan Chase sits down with Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief.

Forrester's Peter Wannemacher and Apigee's Brian Pagano discuss how APIs open new business opportunities in financial serives

With digitalization and FinTech high on the banking agenda, the disruption of financial services looks like a given. The question, however, is where will the real change come from. Will it be blockchain, real-time settlement, the highly competitive payment space, crowdfunding, or P2P lending? According to Accenture, global investment in financial-technology [...]

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Lionel Barber, the editor of the FT, summed it up at Davos: “Nobody wants to be in banking, everyone wants to be in FinT…

Mondo is a bank that makes life easier, not harder.

Stripe today took a big step ahead in its bid to offer more services to startups, beyond the basic payment services it already provides. The company today..

Banking as a Platform (BaaP) is an alternative way of delivering financial services in a partner-driven marketplace.

The technology that launched Bitcoin could help broker-dealers cut costs. The catch: it could equally eat into revenue by automating services they currently charge for. Given the formidable obstacles to widespread adoption, it may prove to be as much a curse as a blessing.

The history of how open standards have developed in the Western World is a valuable source of information for the future of Consensus Ledger technology

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Lev Landau, a Nobelist and one of the fathers of a great school of Soviet physics, had a logarithmic scale for ranking theorists,…

The banking industry puts an appealing spin on a future of contactless payments, branchless banking and cashless society. But it diverts your attention from the dark side of automated financial regimes, says Brett Scott

The image above looks like concept art for a new dystopian sci-fi film. A billionaire superman with a rictus grin, striding straight past human drones, tethered to machines and blinded to reality...

Post Capitalism

by John Melas-Kyriazi

Art related

Art has always existed in a complex, symbiotic and continually evolving relationship with the technological capabilities…

With new landmark exhibitions on digital art and data at Whitechapel Gallery and Somerset House, what’s changing with digital art as it moves from the web to the gallery?

Calatrava is an unreconstructed aesthete.

Douglas Coupland

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