Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #45

The very best

Fantastic essay from 1999 on deep work and slowness by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

By Steve Mann, Brett Leonard, David Brin, Ana Serrano, Robin Ingle, Ken Nickerson, Caitlin Fisher, Samantha Mathews, Ryan Janzen, Mir Adnan Ali, Ken Yang, Pete

[This video is not complete. The beginning is missing due to a technical problem] The words of business and work is at a pivotal moment of change: we finally...

Must read article that carries a profoundly renewed vision of Europe that is entirely compatible with the p2p/commons vision.

How scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical Turk, a ‘gig economy’ platform, for tasks computers can’t handle.

The Crawford Prescription Matthew Crawford is one my favorite social critics. (Damon Linker got it right when he quipped in The Week: "Reading is like

“As Thomas Melville wrote, ‘We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us.’ Today’s digital networks are those fibers and the organizations that build and sustain will win big—bigger than we have every imagined.”

Our smart phones, smart watches, and smart bands promise a lot. They promise to make our lives better, to increase our productivity, to improve our efficiency, to enhance our safety, to make us fitter, faster, stronger and more intelligent. They do this through a combination of methods. One of the most important is outsourcing,* i.e.…

Data and Society

The US government cannot force Microsoft to give access to its servers located in other countries, a court rules.

At six-five, Bill de Blasio is usually considerably taller than his conversation partners. But on a cold day in February, the mayor of New York City...

Max Schrems says the new U.S.-EU privacy deal is sure to fail, and businesses know it.

When it comes to privacy controls, we may now have too much of a good thing. Smartphone owners must now make more than 100 privacy decisions about how how much data their apps can share on Apple’s iOs and Google’s Android operating systems. That number will only climb as privacy settings affect more of our devices and software. The...

If you think Google has a controversial reputation at this point in its business evolution, buckle up because things are really stepping up a gear -- as its..

Zeitgeist

For the last 25 years, I’ve been working at the intersection of business and technology – what one might call the Techonomic frontier. 

The fate of Germany's largest bank appears to be sealed. This timeline shows the fall of Deutsche Bank, one of Europe's most crucial financial institutions.

Innovation

This chapter from Design Leadership explores how leaders can create and nurture a healthy company culture.

Future of work

Alvin Toffler’s Unfinished Business

In the next few decades, about 56% of all salaried workers in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam could be displaced by automation and advanced technologies, such as 3D printing. That's the conclusion of an extensive series of new studies by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Mass-scale displacement won't happen overnight, but it's already in the works. Robots,...

The first in a series on innovative working environments looks at LEGO's new UK hub, where workspaces based on activity replace the traditional one-desk-per-person model

Internet Culture

Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism

Do you know the answer to the next simple question? "What do you know about web 2.0 technology?" What's so interesting about this video, is the simple fact that none of these so called digital natives are familiar with the term web 2.0. Although they never had a life without technology, they just don't know…

FinTech

The DAO, a cryptocurrency investment fund, was hacked.The deadline for a solution is July 27th.This is a defining moment for FinTech.We will learn that law and

Investments in digitising the bank has opened up new revenue streams at lower costs for Singapore’s biggest lender. Channel NewsAsia sat down with DBS Bank CEO Piyush Gupta to find out more about the bank's move towards digitalisation. 

Will blockchain be the catalyst for change for Spanish bank Santander with Blythe Masters on board? The blockchain guru left the banking world in 2014 to build her startup Digital Asset Holdings, which has since raised $60 million from financial institutions. She has now been tasked with advising Santander on how new fintech and more specifically, blockchain, can improve traditional banking.

The banking industry can learn from the digital successes (and challenges) of the Pokémon GO craze.

This interview is part of a series on Trailblazing Women role models (Entrepreneurs and Leaders) from around the world and first appeared on

The director of innovation at ATB Financial explains why his bank became one of the first to send cross-border payments on the Ripple network, and whether this could be a plausible alternative to Swift.

London's fintech industry is rallying to action after the vote for Brexit in a bid to alleviate the fears of startups, along with their investors and

The wealth management landscape is changing and the industry needs to follow.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Cognitive software is rapidly becoming a commodity.

In July 1984, a factory robot in Jackson, Michigan, crushed a 34 year-old worker in the first ever robot-related death in the United States.  The robot thus violated Issac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics, “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm,” first articulated in 1942. In…

These are the new computers Facebook created to accelerate its machine learning research.

Post Capitalism

What Is the Role of Morality in a Capitalist Economy?

The Next Ten Years

Art related

Scientists at McGill University have developed a robot that could conceivably rank as one of the world's great artists. Well, sort of. The team of scientists has written complex algorithms that allow a small quadcopter drone to fly in front of a canvas and to paint on it using daubs of ink. The process is called stippling...

When architect David Adjaye creates a building, it’s not finished until his DJ brother Peter – ‘like Dr Dre on magic mushrooms’ – translates it into music. The pair introduce his latest soundscapes here

Other

"Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective... We are in this together, this accumulation of scars... What matters is kindness;