Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #33

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Why Making a Gigantic Nanny Machine Isn’t Changing the World

Bottom line: Enterprises are impatient to translate their investments in cloud apps and the insight they provide into business outcomes and solid results today. The following insights are based on a series of discussions with C-level executives and revenue team leaders across several industries regarding their need for an Intelligent Cloud: In [...]

Against Technological Determinism: Blockchains and Encryption When the web first emerged I remember vividly the excitement that I and many others felt about the potential for decentralized and...

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes, 15 seconds

A global survey of business leaders shows how the smartest companies develop and wield their technology strategy.

I believe in the power of connected people working together for good

Using digital data to shed light on team satisfaction and other questions about large organizations

Data and Society

Example of democratization of surveillance and advertising revenue as an incentive to staging of the surveillance.

Illusive Networks, the first member of Israeli cybersecurity syndicate Team8, today announced Attacker View, a technology highlighting the links, access and privilege escalation options, and unseen attack paths that are used by cyber criminals on an enterprise network. Launched last June, Illusive Networks has turned the tables on the attackers, by exploiting their psychology and…

This morning, WhatsApp made the scope of the Apple-FBI encryption battle look kinda small.

Holding forth on stuff since 1998

Zeitgeist

Here are 20 terms and concepts that you’ll need to navigate our future.

Innovation

In the Big Shift, we are all experiencing mounting performance pressure. Our response to that pressure so far has been failing, as revealed by our analysis of the collapse in return on assets for all public companies in the US...

Future of work

Of 33,000 workers globally, one in three said they don't trust their employer. What gives?

Characteristics of the Creative Leader

Internet Culture

As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars

To every entrepreneur, small business, and business leader, the quality of relationships are critical to success. When s…

FinTech

Global regulators have moved closer to regulating the fledgling fintech sector, which includes blockchain technology that supports bitcoin, to ensure the industry's rapid growth does not pose any risks to the financial system.

The U.K. bank s new business unit takes advantage of the massive amount of data it stores to offer a new array of products and services, including managing customers digital identities.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Mostly written by Joi Ito, Director MIT Media lab

I was in elementary school, watching the TV live, when the Challenger exploded. My classmates and I were stunned and con…

The future of business belongs to people who can make sense of large quantities of data — Hal Varian, Chief Economist at…

At Silicon Valley's inaugural Comic Con, we gave a talk called “Superbabies vs. AI.” Astro, who is captain of moonshots at Alphabet's X division, argued that genetically engineered babies are going to destroy civilization as we know it. He sees the horror of eugenics, X-Men, and a planet entirely populated by the sort of kids...

Post Capitalism

Iceland is the only nation that put top finance executives behind bars after the 2008 crisis. Still, fears of crony capitalism remain.

Neoliberalism does not give a shit, Part II

Art related

A silent cinematic expedition from Nicolas Provost

Artist Katie Lewis tracks data about her body daily, then mapping that data onto walls creating unique art installations.

Some people just can’t take change, like this art critic of The Guardian, who loses his mind over the recent experiment …

Other

upon landing at JFK, I’ll be stepping forward in time, digitally speaking. In some ways, I may even be stepping backwards.