Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #46

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The day cars drove themselves into walls and the hospitals froze. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.

WEIRD’ science: Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic

Digital distributism is really an alternative to digital industrialism. Most digital economic theorists understand the digital economy as an amplification or an acceleration of the same old industrial economy. A new technology comes along; it disrupts the old technology; it gets rid of some jobs, and then people retrain and come back into the workforce. It's painful, but it's just the way it is — these successive rounds of the diminution of human participation in the evolution of culture, society and the economy. I don't think that's the way history actually works. What I see instead of these successive technological revolutions are actually renaissances. A renaissance, as opposed to a revolution, is not a turning of the cycle. A renaissance is the rebirth of old repressed forms in a new context.

The ubiquity of identity play, like in face swapping, obscures the line between revelation, reveling, and revolution. Empathy, envy, identification, and appropriation all intermingle. We almost don’t notice the transgressions anymore. They become comedic glitches, fascinating failures. Some face-swap images become popular precisely because they fail: They showcase the limits of technology in understanding humanity, as when faces are unintentionally switched with toasters, or breasts, or artfully arranged fruit.

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

“The obligation, and the self‑interest of every company is to build a robust society.”

The Internet of Nano Things

A handy guide to navigating what's coming up next in the design world.

I am very happy to announce that in this webinar Fritjof Capra and I will discuss the importance to global brands of developing their own systems view of life, and what guidance and inspiration change agents working with brands can learn. Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of many international bestsellers…

Slack has announced $2 million in funding for bot startups in its Slack Fund, that has been passed out to 11 new companies…

Data and Society

Film director says ‘invasion’ of privacy in gaming app is part of the wider practice of ‘surveillance capitalism’

This is how the Internet looks to the advertising business today:

Zeitgeist

Cruising the Democratic convention

If the Silicon Valley tycoon shares anything with Donald Trump, it is a disappointment with small politics — and small people.

The voters Peter Thiel is courting for Donald Trump are going to vote for Hillary Clinton. Here's why.

Though all roads may lead to Rome, innovators know that only a few tracks lead to innovation success! Gijs van Wulfen lights up our way with 4 practical routes, depending on your starting point: idea, technology, customer issue, or business challenge.

Innovation

Ever since we started as Google[x] in 2010, X has had a single mission: to invent and launch “moonshot” technologies that we hope could…

Let’s face it, running a business in today’s world is a formidable endeavor: change and disruption have become the new norm. In an effort to keep up, innovation

*/ The first master plan that I wrote 10 years ago is now in the final stages of completion. It wasn't all that complicated and basically consisted of:

Despite their rising popularity, many companies are finding it difficult to yield sustainable results from their innovation and intrapreneurship programs. What

Selective innovation is necessary when resources are finite

Future of work

If we let machines put us out of work, it will be because of a failure of imagination and the will to make a better future!

In order to thrive, businesses should focus more on what is actually being produced at work rather than how long employees spend at their desk

Barcelona wants to be the best city for people in the world. Reclaim the public space and community living, by Superblocks, Barcelona Answer to Cars

Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) is an anxiety created by the idea that something exciting is going on somewhere else, usually online … and you are ‘missing out.’   It’s FOMO t

Internet Culture

FinTech

After a torrid few weeks arguing about what to do, while the DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) became ever more corrupted due to repeated attempts to recover the money without fixing the code problem that made it impossible to prevent the money being stolen again, the Ethereum community has finally bowed [...]

Today there are more bankers convinced of the need to transform their businesses than those that are not. This is no small matter as…

Crypto 2.0 Musings - Central Bank Digital Cash

Amazon is entering the student loan business in a partnership with Wells Fargo & Co, the companies announced Thursday.

Amsterdam is taking a different approach from other European cities to lure London’s post-Brexit business: It’s focusing on quietly targeting specific sectors like clearing, fintech and high frequency trading.

InnoVentures managing partner Mariano Belinky talks to BI about what he's looking for in investments, the impact of the EU referendum, valuations, and more.

Banks that become a platform will create new revenue streams, diversification against downturns in core businesses, and a new type of consumer relationship.

What do we mean when we say “faster” payments?

Fintech companies in China are raising investor eyebrows this year, with such firms breaking global fund raising records. Even as the amount of ventur...

Dan Cobley, head of fintech at London venture builder company Blenheim Chalcot, talks partnerships, funding, and valuations post-Brexit.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Leading venture capitalists, scientists and CEOs all have the same prediction for AI: machines will take jobs away, “eat the world” and, ultimately,..

Post Capitalism

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian

The Future of Economics Uses the Science of Real-Life Social Networks

Stocksy, an online photo stock site, is an example of start-ups that aim to treat their professionals as owners rather than as freelance labor.

Why is everything a consumer exercise? What has that done to us? Find out here.

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