Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #39

The very best

Spectacular post by @DeepakChopra > "Of all the weird contradictions that plague modern life, the strangest is the collapse of philosophy with the triumph of science. Aesthetics, morals, love, transcendence, idealism — all of these fields of thought, having persisted for thousands of years, in the East and in the West, mean nothing in scientific terms because they cannot be reduced to data, measurements and experimentation.

The internet is slowing down, messaging is taking on the home screen, and voice search is big.

Why stories and narratives go viral. Complex read.

Mahatma Gandhi’s List of the 7 Social Sins; or Tips on How to Avoid Living the Bad Life

Don’t fall into the trap of being an expert before you’re ready. We have enough of those.

"Aesthetics, morals, love, transcendence, idealism — all of these fields of thought, having persisted for thousands of years, in the East and in the West, mean nothing in scientific terms because they cannot be reduced to data, measurements and experimentation.”

While enterprise technology has always been somewhat a breed apart from consumer tech, this year we see that consumer tech will definitively set the agenda for businesses like never before in this year's list of tech to watch.

Data and Society

This will be the largest cognitive leap in human history.What if I told you that in my vision of the future you are going to start sharing your most intima…

Zeitgeist

"There's a one in billions chance we're in base reality," Musk said.

Innovation

With the digital world changing today faster than ever before, here's a look at what some top organizations are doing today to adapt more sustainably to the rapidly shifting technology landscape.

CB Insights Trends uses machine learning to analyze news media to discover, predict, and plot the arc of rising expectations and excitement for emerging technologies.

Future of work

Here are 5 charts that show you the future of work, based on the present, which is likely the past depending on when you’re reading this.

all modes seemed exhausted, and he had left nothing Of any importance for them to do, While what had escaped him eluded them also. — W. S. Merwin, The Master The masters of the subtle schools Are controversial, polymath. — T. S. Eliot, Mr Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service Brains reel, Master charts of old ideas…

Leadership Lab: a $35 million, 400,000 square foot experience

Robots may replace us at menial tasks, but we are more likely to be moonlighting to advance our careers in the future.

Internet Culture

Salesforce has agreed to use Amazon Web Services to fuel its international expansion in a deal worth $400 million over four years.

FinTech

Nasdaq, a global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services, will launch a blockchain inclusive

The Uberization of the world is not about creating a ubiquitous app in a specific sector, but redesigning the world around us for optimal technology-based interactions that don’t require humans.

"There are downsides to flying — people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights?"

This article from Let's Talk Payments talks about the APIs and banking APIs and their advent being real and one of the most important things in Fintech.

Every crypto-coin implementation I’ve seen so far, is a fiat currency

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Artificial intelligence can now win a game, recognise your face, even appeal against your parking ticket. But can it do the stuff even humans find tricky?

If artificial intelligence goes off the rails, which many philosophers and tech entrepreneurs seem to think is likely, it could result in rampant activity beyond human control. So some researchers...

There are more bots on the internet than humans. According to figures from Distil Networks, a cybersecurity firm, almost 60 percent of 2014…

Post Capitalism

Complexity Economics Shows Us Why Laissez-Faire Economics Always Fails

Art related

Brian Eno Answers Deep Questions from Music Journalist Dick Flash: The Best Eno Interview You’ll See

We’re happy to announce Magenta, a project from the Google Brainteam that asks: Can we usemachine learning to create compelling art and music? If so, how? If...

Other

Another way of looking at Mary Meeker's annual state of the union > if you like rap music

together with microsoft research, ‘project florence’ by helen steiner is speculative glimpse into the future where both natural and digital worlds could co-exist in harmony through enhanced communications.