Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #47

The very best

Video recording of Kevin Kelly's talk at the Long Now Foundation two weeks ago. Very much recommended, as is his last book "The Inevitable" that is the basis of this talk. But hearing it from the horse's mouth is always better...

Why citizenship might also be ripe for disruption. The fluidity of movement that’s been quietly, expensively — and exclusively — available to the super rich for decades may be entering its moment of actual democratization, and citizenship (or many citizenships) may just be a click away.

Challenge your thinking on crowds (read with current political madness in mind). Second part about climate change, and why should be much more worried about that than about AI taking our jobs.

Why innovation today is fundamentally different than 100 years ago, because more people have to deal with wicked problems

About growing independent-minded kids.

On the Becoming Wise podcast, feminist playwright Eve Ensler speaks of the affirming physicality of our bodies, and of finding true contentment in the lives we already lead.

Excellent report by Life.SCREDA on status of FinTech H1 2016

10+ Disruptive Factors Transforming the World of Education and Learning — Consequences, Opportunities, Tools

Shinichi Mochizuki's proof of the abc conjecture remains an enigma.

Data and Society

Interesting reflection on digital identity and associated identity rights. Makes me think of Kim Cameron's Identity Laws and of course our work on the Digital Asset Grid in 2012

Richard Berk says his algorithms take the bias out of criminal justice. But could they make it worse?

Passcode, the Family Online Safety Institute, and the Future of Privacy Forum hosted a discussion on kids and the connected home this week. Here are five things we learned.

I wrote about new business opportunities for financial services incumbents, specifically banks, in my previous post. More notably, I posited that 1) because

Zeitgeist

The difference is that New Humanists are committed to expanding the pie of human potential, whereas their opponents, New National Socialists, are most devoted to more savage ways to divide it up. That’s the great divide between them – and among us.

It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals.

Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the emotions of others, while cognitive empathy is our conscious ability to understand someone else’s perspective. In this instalment of Aeon In Sight, the British writer Roman Krznaric argues that empathy is a uniquely powerful – if often overlooked – tool for transforming and improving societies on a mass scale. Using it effectively, however, requires much more than affective empathy’s rush of emotions and reflexive reactions, to which the culture today seems particularly inclined. Rather, to get the most out of empathy, we must focus on widening our moral concern through cognitive empathy, finding ways to move from the personal to the collective.

Innovation

lean thinking is about smart maneuvering, fat thinking is about smart growth. Great post leading into some great final paragraphs on corporate innovation and why R&D labs just don't cut it.

Tell Me What You Want, What You Really Really Want: “Eavesdropping” on Your Customers

Traditional hierarchies are giving way to market forms of organizing that will recast the role of management.

Future of work

Games are disjunctive. Rituals are by nature uniting, they lead to being together, to nurturing an identity of belonging. They are conjunctive.

What will the workplace of tomorrow look like? At Work Awesome in New York last month, we pulled together four thought leaders with Amol Sarva from Knote...

Sure, the coworking movement may be a fad, but these researchers say it has a surprisingly strong psychological basis.

The digital future has taken big companies by storm, but many employees are unconvinced their bosses get it. A new study finds many are poised to leave.

Fears of civilization-wide idleness are based too much on the downsides of being unemployed in a society premised on the concept of employment.

Internet Culture

FinTech

Ethereum And The 'Old Catholics'

DBS has made the shift to a hybrid cloud, expecting to have 50 percent of its compute workload in the AWS cloud in the next two years.

FInTech evolution - This evolution started with the birth of the signature verification system Pantelegraph, invented by Giovanni Caselli. 

Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS, says he is surprised that the ‘Whatsapp moment – the tipping point for fintech has not happened yet

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Goldman Sachs has been particularly active in the last 2 years, backing 4 unique companies applying AI in financial technology.

Techies do not believe that artificial intelligence will run out of control, but there are other ethical worries

For more than 65 years, computer scientists have studied whether robots' behavior could become indistinguishable from human intelligence. But while we’ve focused on machines, have we ignored changes to our own capabilities? In a book due to be published next year, Being Human in the 21st Century, a law professor and a philosopher argue that we’ve overlooked the...

Imagine a world where bots are ubiquitous... a world where nearly every online interaction takes place with a Siri, Alexa, Cortana or some soon-to-be-named..

Post Capitalism

A talk by Michel Bauwens

Art related

The New York-based organization takes us into the genre-blurring artist’s Brooklyn studio

A team at the University of Freiburg has given neural networks a better sense of style by developing a method for taking an existing art style and smoothly applying it to a video. Artists, including New York-based Danil Krivoruchko, have already put the system to work with some beautiful results.

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