Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #41

The very best

Our knowledge-focused times have - confoundingly - instead produced "functional stupidity" and a decline in innovation.

What matters more: What the code said or what people thought it said?

Slides for Peter Morville's talk in Grand Rapids.

Sentient machines are a greater threat to human existence than climate change, according to the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom

Various public and private authorities have come to see cyber risk — risk emanating from computer systems and computer networks — as a significant channel for systemic risk. Recent examples include the Bank of Canada (2014), the BIS (2014), the Bank of England (2015) and the SEC (Ackerman 2016).

Rem Koolhaas says that Britain's EU Leave campaigners believe they can change England back to the way it was, but don't understand what that really means

In a world in which a phone or computer is rarely more than arm’s length away, are we eliminating introspection?

Data and Society

Apple is stepping up its artificial intelligence efforts in a bid to keep pace with rivals who have been driving full-throttle down a machine learning-powered..

Most people who don’t code don’t appreciate how hard it is to do right. Plenty of developers are perfectly functional, but to watch a…

How does Facebook translate broad ethical values into its decision-making process for research?

Hackers already love them, which means spies will, too.

“If you’re living a normal life,” the creator said, “then frankly, you have nothing to worry about.”

Zeitgeist

Innovation

A New Theory of Disruption and Disruptive Innovation

As the latest corporate energy user to jump into the wholesale electricity business, the tech giant shows how the tide may be turning away from power monopolies.

Amazon acquired Kiva for $775 million in 2012 but only started using the orange robots in its warehouses in late 2014. The deal was expected to make inventory management more efficient. It's now beginning to become clear by how much. The "click to ship" cycle used to be around 60-75 minutes when employees had manually to sift through...

We seem to be living in an accelerated age of revolutionary technological breakthroughs. But the economic consequences of any innovation ultimately depend on how quickly it diffuses through labor and product markets.

Future of work

We are on the cusp of a major breakthrough in how organizations collect, analyze, and act on knowledge.

Keynote at CSW Global 2016, London by Shelley Kuipers, CEO, Better Ventures. How business' and brands can generate net new participation revenue, build new p...

In some industries, there's now one freelance "comprehensivist" where there used to be a team of specialists.

New research shows bias exists even in merit-based systems — but a data-centric approach can help.

Internet Culture

Ikea's new collaboration with top British designer Tom Dixon reveals how the company is embracing open-source thinking.

Marc Andreessen sees technology startups cashing out in a wave of acquisitions and public stock offerings over the next few years.

FinTech

Fintech could potentially jeopardize around a third of all German banks revenues over the next few years, according to McKinsey and Company.

The idea is to create a single worldwide network that can not only unite all digital currencies, but all companies and individuals who use those currencies.

The Holographic Workstation increases efficiency by using the HoloLens platform to create 3D holograms of real-time financial data. A three-tiered system of ...

The term “fintech” has become all the rage; investors and media can’t stop talking about it. Many people also have been talking about the “bubble”..

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Palantir hired a cybersecurity firm last year to test its digital defenses. A confidential report shows how the pro hackers were able to...

Big Data News, Events, and Expert Opinion

The best minds in the business—Yann LeCun of Facebook, Luke Nosek of the Founders Fund, Nick Bostrom of Oxford University and Andrew Ng of Baidu—on what life will look like in the age of the machines

Post Capitalism

Humans have dreamed of a world of plenty in which nobody needs to work. Find out more about Albert Wenger's new book: World After Capital.

The company has chosen not to fund or otherwise support the GOP convention, sources told Politico.

Art related

on june 18th, christo's floating piers opens to the public, a highly-anticipated reveal that sees golden fabric wrap a floating dock on italy’s lake iseo.

Other

It might be dead for most of us, but privacy seems to be alive and kicking at Bilderberg