Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #32

The very best

An absolute MUST read report by Citigroup. Very very comprehensive. 

the rebellion was refined, polished, perfected

Democracy is under threat from rising inequality and terrorism. Google and Facebook have taken over

Mapping Intimacy and Engagement in Online Communities

The question is more complicated than it seems.

Management consulting and change management

A network of writers, artists and thinkers centred on the Dark Mountain journal. Join us in search of new stories for troubled times.

a massive democratization of the global economy

Data and Society

Technology leaders, academics and governments are talking about where AI goes next.

Try to guess how many times, in the course of your life in the digital world, you have “agreed” to terms like these:

The year is 1766 and Sweden has just passed the world’s first law enabling the public to access information related to t…

‘Trust economy’ firm launches European office after $3.2m funding round.

Zeitgeist

From the first Apple computer, Steve Jobs leaving and returning, the iMac and the MacBook Air to the iPod, iPhone, iPad and Watch, Apple’s is a rich history

Amazon's all over the place from ecommerce and delivery to cloud-computing and electronic gadgets. These charts show just how crazy its business really is.

the design and construction of the first minimal synthetic bacterial cell,

The Uber model just doesn't work for other industries. The price points always fail -- and that's a good thing

I’ve been reading and thinking about the future a lot recently, and decided to spend a week “nerding out” at Singularity…

Andy Grove’s life reveals the role of public investment in creating and nurturing Silicon Valley—and the dangers of disinvestment.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are positioning their cloud computing services to dominate the infrastructure that will power self-driving cars.

Innovation

We need to combine revolutionary and evolutionary thinking

Comment: The demise of a respected British games developer is a loss, but it could also lead to an outpouring of new startups and creativity 

Joi Ito from MIT Media Lab on permissionless innovation, participatory design and much more

Perhaps the most egregious is a failure of imagination.

While global trade in goods remains flat, the cross-border flows of data are growing rapidly in an increasingly interconnected world, stimulating global efficiency and productivity.

The Priesthood of Corporate Strategy is Under Attack

Here's to the Catalysts: An Update to Apple's Think Different Campaign. Very similar to our own movement Corporate Rebels United www.corporaterebelsunited.com/rebels-hom/

Future of work

when I stay empty of hot-air, I am humbled by the work itself

More companies are requiring a mix of technology and people skillsget prepared for the hybrid job.

Businesses are embracing the idea of working in teams. Managing them is hard

While performance is monitored to death through zillions of numbers, how do we assess the effectiveness of culture change efforts? And, as we want to support voluntary transformation, how do we measure behavior change with metrics that do not operate as targets or injunctions? A field experience in a large-scale transformation may open ways for meaningful measurement.

Joshua Rothman on “Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers,” edited by Elizabeth Samet.

This is an excerpt of the upcoming report, Work Management Narrative, in which I will be reviewing around a dozen produc…

Internet Culture

Former Facebook employee Chamath Palihapitiya dishes the dirt—and more—on Silicon Valley’s biggest companies.

A shakeup at Frog, one of the most storied design consultancies, signals the shifting business of design.

Busy, distracted, inattentive? Everybody has been since at least 1710 and here are the philosophers to prove it

FinTech

Bitcoin's Core Developers will benefit from a $900k fund from Fred Wilson, Reid Hoffman, Circle, Nasdaq and others organized by MIT.

San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa...

This is a guest post by Justin O'Connell. The Aite Group projects the blockchain market could be valued at $400 million by 2019. For that...

best overview of the Blockchain scene in months

Forget a global currency. We’ll see more types of digital cash than there are nations.

A Shared Platform Enterprise - Bank in a Box

Entrepreneurs, investors and enthusiasts claim that public blockchains are an acceptable settlement mechanism and layer for financial instruments. But public blockchains by design cannot definitively guarantee settlement finality, and as a result, they are currently not a reliable option for the clearing and settling of financial instruments.

Banks aren't as excited by the digital ledger as they claim

Want to disrupt finance? Start here.

8ninths, a Microsoft Holographic Academy graduate, partnered with the Citi Innovation Lab to think disruptively in envisioning a mixed reality evoluti

Summary:

AI, Robots, Algorythms

The last thing we want are AIs that think like us

Dr Woodrow (Woody) Barfield has published over 350 articles and publications in the areas of computer science, engineering and law. He was head of the Sensory Engineering Laboratory as an Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor at the University of Washington, and he holds both JD and LLM degrees in intellectual property law and policy.  His research revolves around the design and use of wearable computers and augmented reality systems.

When most people think about self-driving vehicles, they picture themselves sitting in the passenger seat with their legs up, arms folded behind their head

Post Capitalism

on collecting fossils, having a regular job, and enjoying surrender

On Photography remains one of the definitive texts on image culture, considering the problems that arise from living in an image-saturated world.

Accelerationism, like autonomism and CBPP wants to decouple productive forces from their capitalist constraints to achieving a world without work.

Art related

What does “total design” mean today? What does it mean, let’s say, after postmodernism? Not so long ago, the expression was part of the basic vocabulary...

In 1979, Brian Eno gave a lecture at the inaugural New Music America Festival in New York on a very Brian Eno-ish topic. Titled “The Recording Studio as a..

Other

The company skewered branding, the innovation craze, and media frenzy in one fell swoop.

The Texas band's cinematic approach to making music reaches a new peak.