Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #29

The very best

Fantastic essay on the concept of Entanglement. Just VERY good

This article contains insights on some of the drawbacks of digital revolution and hazards for the society.

It's time to talk about an "ecology of attention."

The era of predictable improvement in computer hardware is ending. What comes next?

w up with something great, something generous, well-executed and new, some people will be suspicious. "Is this everything it's cracked up to be?" The skeptic wonders if we have the standing to back it up. You're not going to be able to persuade those skeptics. In fact, when you try, you end up dressing up your confident presentation with too many claims and you risk being seen as merely arrogant.

Data and Society

Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to: the company is creating an unprecedented form of surveillance capitalism.

Zeitgeist

Update, March 3, 2016: Since this post was originally published, the heat wave has continued. As of Thursday morning, it appears that average temperatu ...

eviction

Gatorade is developing a microchip-fitted “smart cap” bottle and sweat patch that communicate digitally and provide athletes and fitness buffs constant updates on how much they should drink.

Innovation

Disruption is everywhere. Our current use (or misuse) of the word and the idea whose freight it carries owes much to Har…

Too much testing can backfire.

The truth is that there are many paths to innovation. Here are nine of them.

Platform Disruption is part of the geopolitical shift that is diminishing the power of the US economy in favor of China. I'm sure Americans will look back at the Obama years and puzzle over whether more could have been done to maintain US prestige as China's economy changed phases. I envisage a time, say three…

What are some of the connection points that exist between the world of research and the world of startups?

Future of work

A move to “self-management” has shaken Zappos. Can it regain its mojo?

Medium tried a new management structure called holacracy. It didn't work.

Imagine a much better world -- the people-centered economy -- where three billion workers have jobs tailored to fit their unique sets of skills, talents,..

We need to move to hyperdemocratic cooperative work, and drop oligarchic management.

Internet Culture

The MIT Media Lab has launched a new kind of academic journal that embodies its "antidisciplinary" ethos.

The Zuck has his eye on 3.5bn social media accounts – that’s a lot of data for advertisers. Here’s how to cover your tracks

FinTech

Over the last year and a half a number of prominent voices in the Bitcoin community have been warning that the system needed to make fundamental changes to its core software code to avoid being...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has apparently passed comment on a British exit (‘Brexit’) from the European Union (EU). So too has Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, who yesterday was interpreted as indicating his support for staying in or ‘Bremaining’. But what potential consequences loom for London’s IT sector [...]

BBVA has acquired Finnish digital current account startup Holvi, furthering its investment into tech-led alternatives to traditional banking.

It’s an amazing time to be a stock market investor. A whole generation now works and lives on its smartphones, carries m…

The supply chain is an outdated structure.

U.S. bank Capital One has launched a developer portal and three new open APIs in a move that signals a significant shift in open banking platforms. Demonstrating their desire for street cred and aiming to appeal to developers directly, the announcement was made at SXSW in Austin, Texas yesterday.

We are witnessing much activity around consensus ledgers within the capital markets sector. Many startups are attracting…

The story I want to be able to tell my (as of yet non-existent) grandchildren in 25 years.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary’s AlphaGo...

In a dramatic man versus machine encounter, AlphaGo has secured its third, decisive victory against a renowned Go player. With scientists amazed at how fast AI is developing, it’s vital that humans stay in control

Technological change is accelerating today at an unprecedented speed and could create a world we can barely begin to imagine.

David Foster Wallace was right to be concerned: immersive VR headsets could be the ruin of us

Post Capitalism

Why I Spent a Month Writing a Book I Never Planned to Publish

Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth

Art related

A bizzy weekend of Robotics makes it a good night for a repeat, this from 2014.  With the Democratic Debate in Michigan the topic is very timely, too - Michigan has more FIRST Robotics teams per capita than any state and is clearly pushing this as a way to encourage a good future.  Industrial Arts?…

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