Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #43

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Recently there’s been a surge of interest in applying blockchain models to issues in digital culture. But every upsurging technology …

Society Cannot Function Without Moral Bonds

The Internet's designers and a new generation of hackers are unraveling the knots keeping the web from living up to its original promise.

Brexit, Trump. What Happens Now?

Filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand travels across 65 countries, speaking to over 2,000 people in a quest to better understand the world & the nature of humanity.

The time has come for a sea change in how we think about business, and the role of business in our world and impact on our society. We need…

How to make VR bigger than the Web

Data and Society

Zeitgeist

CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection by Adam Harvey

Innovation

This blog post is a review of a talk titled 'Leading People In A Disrupted World', given by Lucy Adams at the PPMA summit in Birmingham, on June 23rd 2016

Vocativ uses intelligent technology, smart journalists and the wisdom of the crowd to find story leads and angles no other news organization can.

Future of work

It’s on you to adapt.

We are building a curious place filled with short fiction, curated conversations, and narrative nonfiction. We call it daCunha, named for…

Most people can relate to the experience of having a colleague inexplicably treat them rudely at work. You’re not invited to attend a meeting. A co-worker gets coffee – for everyone but you. Your input is laughed at or ignored. You wonder: where d...

Internet Culture

How to make VR bigger than the Web

FinTech

Many startups want a slice of the huge financial market but few of them have offered any real innovation.

Brian Behlendorf

Blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and Big Data will transform capital markets, according to Deutsche Boerse.

Mega-bank Citigroup needs to counter a new wave of financial technology (fintech) startups.

BBVA’s transformation process involves the creation of a "new corporate culture", says the Spanish bank in a deep-dive blog post explaining it...

Along with virtual reality, blockchain has been one of the hottest topics in the tech industry this year. In particular, banks have seized upon the...

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Free service DoNotPay helps appeal over $4m in parking fines in just 21 months, but is just the tip of the legal AI iceberg for its 19-year-old creator

Will smarter machines cause mass unemployment?

Post Capitalism

The firm's decision has advisers and clients questioning the investment policies and maturity of the digital platform.

Studio D Radiodurans is a research, design and strategy consultancy.

Efficiency sounds great in theory. What kind of monster doesn’t want to optimize possibilities, minimize waste and make the most of finite resources? But the economic and policy elite may like efficiency a lot more than normal humans do.

Art related

tina roth eisenberg | swiss designer gone NYC

Musician Bjork has partnered with designer Neri Oxman on a mask made up of multiple 3D-printed strands that mimic the underlying structure of her own face

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