Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #31

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These are not quite “wicked problems” so I think of it as messy or muddy. I spoke with a co-founder of my client organiz…

What was Apple thinking when it launched the iPhone? It was an impressive bit of technology, poised to revolutionise the smartphone industry, and set to become nearly ubiquitous within a decade. The social consequences have been dramatic. Many of those consequences have been positive: increased connectivity, increased knowledge and increased day-to-day convenience.

Hello my children!Hello my sons!Hello my daughters!Hello my brothers and sisters!I’m here to tell you that the world’s last unpleasant experience…Will be a precisely dateable event!Yes! It will happen in our lifetimes if we commit all of our energy today…To the task of Paradise Engineering!– Yacht, Paradise Engineering(referencing David Pearce’s Hedonistic Imperative

When I met Tony Hsieh, one of the first things he wanted me to know was that it wasn’t his idea to have me come speak to…

How can a monkey, an elephant and a lizard can help you reach your goals? Let me tell you a story.

My keynote at GEF2016

@MarkBonchek

How one man went from obscure tobacco farmer to ad agency owner billing $55 million in 15 years.

Data and Society

An Apple loss in the San Bernardino encryption case risks creating a world in which we can no longer trust the gadgets that track how we drive, when we’re home and whether the door is locked

Zeitgeist

The true story of how Apple built a robot to disassemble iPhones in an effort to keep more electronic waste out of landfills.

Innovation

After driving voracious growth at Amazon, Jess Bezos is conquering media—and possibly even space.

Google and Procter & Gamble are swapping employees as P&G seeks to learn how to market products online and Google tries to persuade advertisers to shift away from TV.

Future of work

When I was working in the learning and development department of corporate organisations, there were many times I felt a…

Internet Culture

Apps should be either useful, interesting, or fun – but getting a notification now means I’m about to feel guilty or inadequate about something

@alexmuir

The company’s streaming service as well as its entertainment software has come under fire. But the saving grace is its a…

FinTech

Access to digital banking data is the fintech battleground. Distribution and analysis of big data is set to redefine competitive advantage across the new economy.

The impact of digital technology and new entrants is redefining all sectors of financial services.

A new report from PwC claims that 83 percent of financial services companies believe specific aspects of their businesses are at risk to...

What is the time lag from Science Fiction to reality? Arthur C. Clarke wrote about geostationary satellites in 1945 and it became reality 20 years later, but Clarke’s work was more grounded in science than the Kubrick classic 2001 featuring the Hal AI computer. That was released in 1968 – 48 years ago. It is…

Upgrading decades-old IT systems is expensive, difficult and risky, but the longer they leave it the more banks risk losing out to nimbler competitors.

  Daniel Zhang, chief executive officer of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., speaks during the launch of the company's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival at the company's headquarters in Hangzhou, China, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. Alibaba will open offices in three European countries and expand further in the U.S. as it seeks [...]

"Banking as a Platform" (BaaP) may be the best way to deliver financial services in the future.

Hyperledger today announced it successful created a proof-of-concept linking the code from Digital Asset, IBM, and Blockstream. But that's just the start.

This article contains insights on the extensive representation of technology companies in financial sector.

Companies within the payments industry should prepare for disruption and the exponential growth of new technologies.

I am convinced what we are witnessing is but an intermediary stage towards a more comprehensive incumbent response - at least for those incumbents that will successfully transition to the future. I have advocated in previous posts that one of the responses incumbents need to artic

AI, Robots, Algorythms

I have been part robot since May. Here is my story.

Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy—and that should scare us, argues David Gelernter.

Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft are using high salaries and games pitting humans against computers to try to claim the standard on which all companies will build their A.I. technology.

For human lip readers, context is key in deciphering words stripped of the full nuance of their audio cues. But a technology model for lip-reading developed..

Ever wondered how Google manages thousands of petabytes of storage across its services around the world? The answer lies in its state-of-the-art data cente

fallen far below the baseline of ethical botmaking.

Post Capitalism

In his new book, Douglas Rushkoff reacts to rising inequality and the threat of automation by proposing a new social operating system that distributes wealth more equitably.

Brushing up on your tech skills might only make for temporary job security at best.

Art related

In the era of Google Moonshots, is there room for a humanities deep research project?

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