Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #44

The very best

Speakers: Esko Kilpi (Esko Kilpi Company) Tim Leberecht (The Business Romantic Society) Nilofer Merchant (Innovation Expert/Harvard Author) Moderator: Arthur...

Stephen Wolfram combines two of his great interests, people & history, into a new book about lives and ideas, and how they mix together. Essays about people he’s known as well as interesting historical figures.

GCHQ Boiling Frogs paper

This is the text of a short talk I gave at The Europas in June 2015.

Part 3 of a 3 part series of reflections on OuiShare Festival.

Data and Society

The European Union approved its first rules on cybersecurity, forcing businesses to strengthen defenses and companies such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to report attacks.

Data is the oil that will lubricate the wheels of the fintech sector. However creating data sets takes time and effort. So many fintechs argue that opening up access to bank data sets is in the interest of the greater public good. It’s a prickly question and skirts a grey regulatory area in many countries.…

Zeitgeist

Back-to-school angst isn't just for kids. To keep senior citizens up with the times, several Nordic countries are currently debating a proposal to send them back to school. "To prepare ourselves for the future we need to think out of the box," writes Nordic Council rapporteur Poul Nielson in Proposal 7 of a new report (pdf) about the future of...

Dispatches from the front lines of connectivity.

Being alone has many benefits. It grants freedom in thought and action. It boosts creativity. It offers a terrain for the imagination to roam. Solitude also enriches our connections with others by providing perspective, which enhances intimacy and fosters empathy. To be sure, solitude is not always experienced positively. At times, and for certain people, it can lead...

Many models of the future exist. Several are relevant. Hyperbolic model is strongest, but too strange. Our need: correct model of the futureDifferent peo

Innovation

A new book examines star chef Ferran Adrià’s systematic pursuit of technological and culinary reinvention.

Three years back I took a view on what to focus upon in my innovation activities to meet client needs, they did seem to make sense at the time. In many ways, I was fairly happy with the outcome, as many of the places I would put my required but limited resources behind, in providing…

Advanced machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence or just A.I., holds far greater promise than unsettling headlines about computers beat ...

Future of work

The research is unequivocal, according to the father of behavioral economics: When it comes to decision-making, algorithms are superior to people.

Speakers: Esko Kilpi (Esko Kilpi Company) Tim Leberecht (The Business Romantic Society) Nilofer Merchant (Innovation Expert/Harvard Author) Moderator: Arthur...

Internet Culture

Seen in literary fiction as well as SF, this genre weaves together complex debates in a way that can offer a clearer view of the future – think Atwood, DeLillo and Asimov

FinTech

Leda Glyptis breaks down the intricacies of trust when it comes to blockchain, and says your associates are no more trustworthy than before.

The Next Banking (R)evolution

More than 1 billion people in the region don't have bank accounts. Giving them access to finance has never been easier.

U.S. Bank Introduces Free Real-time Peer-to-peer Payments

State of FinTech – The Future of Money, Visualised The growing world of financial technology is multi faceted and changing every day. New tools are created

Finally, I would argue that the biggest lesson to learn from the crypto community is that of decentralization itself: have different teams implement different pieces redundantly, so as to minimize the chance that an oversight from one system will pass through the other systems undetected. The crypto ecosystem is shaping up to be a live experiment comprising many challenges at the forefront of software development, computer science, game theory and philosophy, and the results, regardless of whether they make it into mainstream social applications in their present form or after several iterations that involve substantial changes to the core concepts, are welcome for anyone to learn from and see.

This article from Lets Talk Payments talks about The Floor, the first FinTech hub in Israel that is stated to turn Israel into a leading FinTech capital.

In this article, Let’s Talk Payments provides an overview of the latest partnerships between banks and FinTech startups and innovation labs launches.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

IBM has been working on a new quantum computer that can dominate the industry for decades to come. If that sounds incredible, wait till you hear the ideas behind it.

Post Capitalism

Alberto Gallo, Portfolio Manager and Head of Macro Strategies, Algebris Investments

A Conversation about Universal Basic Income with John Maynard Keynes and Paul Buchheit

Art related

Everyone had his or her favorite drink in hand. There were bubbles and deep reds, and the sound of ice clinking in cocktail glasses…

From David Bowie’s earliest steps onto the public stage up to his end, he remained preoccupied with the individual’s struggle against the collective.

Other

The European Union and the Single Currency were never going to last anyway