Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #42

The very best

I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of…

The "Uber for X" playbook is dead. How companies are going beyond the hype to try to create real businesses.

From the first time I came across the Francis Bacon quote, I’ve loved it:

Computational linguists and computer scientists, among them University of Texas professor Jason Baldridge, have been working for over fifty years

12 rules of change at scale, from culture change to social movements.

We are living in a network-based world, a place that is governed and accelerated by information. So why is it that so many of us are failing to grab the chances right in front of us?

Drivers, couriers, cleaners and handymen are now at your beck and call thanks to a host of apps. But what’s it like to earn your living waiting for someone else to press a button?

Content note for discussion of abuse and sexual violence. In the last couple of weeks, three respected members of the computer security and privacy tech communities have come forward under their own names to tell their harrowing stories of sexual misconduct, harassment, and abuse committed by Jacob Appelbaum. They acted in solidarity with the first anonymous…

We are bringing together a diverse group of Web architects, activists, engineers, archivists, scholars, journalists, and other stakeholders to explore the te...

There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology -- software that is open to change and free..

In Man And Superman, George Bernard Shaw writes the following:

Data and Society

Zeitgeist

he only man with a plan is Germany’s finance minister. Schäuble

From Yahoo Finance: Stockholm leads London, Copenhagen, Singapore and Paris in Networked Society City Index 2016 Significant improvements for Barcelona, Istanbul and Jakarta in this year`s index, while Hong Kong, Moscow and ...

Innovation

Our editors pick the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model.

Don't get sucked in by "channel obsession." Columnist Mayur Gupta explains why marketers need to move past channels and instead focus on the consumer and the consumer experience.

Future of work

Internet Culture

What would you do if you wanted to read something stored on a floppy disk? That's a future the web's inventors don't want to see for their own creation.

Since the first browser was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee over 25 years ago, the World Wide Web has grown to become a massive ecosystem of information that has democratized access to knowledge and culture on the Internet. But today, the Web is under threat.

FinTech

Fintech Brexistentialism

Here’s what’s particularly disturbing about techno-futurists right now: Software is so widely distributed, so persistent and attainable that any fantastical idea, the wacky and the unchecked, of...

This is the most recent update in my series on The Dao, and a response to Albert Wenger's blog post on the same topic. 1) What has happened over the last 72 hours Over the last 72 hours, the shortcomings of the blockchain application known as THE DAO have converged in rather spectacular fashion on account of…

Lets Talk Payments provides insights on the controversies around financial aggregators and other third parties having access to banking data.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Our world is increasingly shaped by biased algorithms that have been built with little oversight.

How big an impact will artificial intelligence have? Should we fear it? What will it do to jobs? Eminent leaders at a dinner pondered...

Post Capitalism

What Role Should Money and Markets Play in a Good Society?

Art related

At the Architecture Biennale in Venice, traditions of reproduction are being updated and drawing attention to current crises

Hong Kong wasn't always a concrete jungle packed with 80-story skyscrapers. During the 1950s and '60s, Fan Ho, one of Asia's most acclaimed masters of photography, captured a different kind of life in the city through his Rolleiflex lenses. Ho passed away last Sunday (June 19) at 84 years old in San Jose, California. Ho's renowned black and white photography...

Happyplaces Stories

In this exclusive movie, Amanda Levete explains why the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is her favourite Zaha Hadid project

Other

It might sound strange but the world of animal-computer interaction could improve their welfare and help us understand them better.