Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #48

The very best

Our last invention, greatest nightmare, or pathway to utopia?

The new divide in rich countries is not between left and right but between open and closed

Athletes are increasingly taking the role of the meat in an algorithm sandwich

About playing to your strengths, or to your emotional limits.

"We will probably end-up with a new SWIFT"

On Friday, in Storey County, Nevada, a woman at Tesla’s Gigafactory inauguration hollered, “Beam me up, Elon!” Elon Musk, the…

No matter how much we wish, the practice of business and product development are more art than engineering, more social science than…

Imagine purging life’s disturbing events. If you could alter or mute your worst memories would you still remain yourself?

A Summary by Stewart Brand

If an artificial intelligence goes bad, who ya gonna call?

Data and Society

Zeitgeist

Amazon and Facebook are now lording over Exxon and Berkshire Hathaway as valuations continue to surge on high expectations.

Innovation

Google’s “moonshot factory” is inspiring and ambitious, but there’s a less talked-about route to many of Google’s great achievements -- the consistent, short-term, incremental “roofshots” that make our products better year after year.

Innovation is not just a bullet point in a drab strategy presentation. And although I boldly stated that as the first line of this article…

by Jeremiah Owyang, @jowyang

Future of work

Are there ‘successful psychopaths’ amongst us?

Internet Culture

Just over two months ago, Apple made a $1 billion bet on Didi, the dominant ride-sharing company in China. Today (Aug. 1), that move has made Apple a part-owner of Uber, thanks to a $1 billion investment by Didi into Uber. All of a sudden, Apple has found itself with stakes in two of the world's biggest ride-sharing firms. The progress reports for investors...

FinTech

Thought Machine, let by Google's former text-to-speech head Paul Taylor, is publicly unveiling VaultOS for the first time.

Amy Nauiokas

AI, Robots, Algorythms

It has been a while since the concept of neural dust was first proposed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, the engineers

The goal seems simple enough—make an AI that behaves in a way that is ethically responsible. But the evolution of AI that's moral is complicated.

Cloud-computing services deliver AI to the rest of us

The tech giants are eager to rent out their AI breakthroughs to other companies.

Japan's National Science Museum is no stranger to eerily human androids: It employs two in its exhibition hall already. But for a week, they're getting a new co...

It looks like a maggot because it moves like a maggot. But could you stomach having them in your home?

Post Capitalism

The new divide in rich countries is not between left and right but between open and closed

Art related

"Unfortunately film school is not going to go completely extinct. I wish it would."

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