Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #52

The very best

About the book Homo Sapiens and the future of humanity.

About The Choreographer Shaking Up Organizations By Chasing The Silences

The Chinese government is lavishing benefits like free rent and cash handouts on homegrown start-ups in an effort to move beyond the factory floor.

About the state of the net and how the organised net would be created, through a sort of ‘disconnection’ of the excess, ‘long-range’ connections we have today (such as the case of mass-friending on Facebook)

About why the smart people running our companies don't see the innovator's dilemma themselves? Why did it a take a business professor to point out what was going on in their business, their industries, under...

“The tyranny of agile.” Never thought you’d hear me say that, did you? We’re the folks who got all up in the State of California’s business…

Four people involved in the creation of an industry partnership say its intent will be clear: to ensure that A.I. research is focused on things that will benefit people, not hurt them.

Measuring—and delivering—what consumers really want

Spiritual Heroin for Implosive Capitalism

This New York playground is teaching kids – and parents – the value of independence, extreme creativity, and saying yes to splinters

Data and Society

This talk is a rough transcript of the talk I gave at The Death Forum, a series of events in Manchester that look at contemporary conversations around death, dying and grief. Thanks to Sarah Unwin for the invite, and to artist Ellie Harrison, whose beautiful work was also presented at this event. This is barely…

While many of the ideas of transhumanism are noble, the field is accused of sharing traits with eugenics. I can't answer the many ethical, moral and..

Zeitgeist

Last summer, James Hansen—the pioneer of modern climate science—pieced together a research-based revelation: a little-known feedback cycle between the ...

Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical.

25 years ago this week, a college student in Finland shared his project on an email list:

For nearly nine decades, science’s favorite explanation for the origin of life has been the “primordial soup.” This is the idea that life began from a series of chemical reactions in a warm pond on Earth’s surface, triggered by an external energy source such as lightning strike or ultraviolet (UV) light. But recent research adds...

Flash crashes and rogue traders - there’ve been a few.  Most trading folk will recall the May 6 ‘flash crash’ in 2010 - also known as ‘The Crash of 2:45’ or simply the 2010 Flash Crash. Yet has anything been learned since then or even last August’s ETF flash crash [...]

As the new school year starts in China, many colleges are welcoming not only students, but their parents too. Universities across China are setting up tents and makeshift accommodations for parents staying overnight when they drop off their children at the start of the semester. Schools are debating whether the practice is undermining young people's ability to be independent,...

Innovation

Open Innovation is dead. Say hello to Open Organizations

Innovation is critical for established companies to stay relevant in the face of disruption. Here's our list of corporate innovation labs.

Early Friday morning, reports broke the news that Alphabet is killing Project Ara, its attempt at a modular smartphone. I'm not crying for the loss of Ara -- phones with swappable screens are inherently dumb -- but there's only so many times Google and Alphabet can hype up the future, before uncer...

More than ever, mature organizations are being disrupted by competitors that seem to appear out of nowhere, and rapidly grab massive amounts of marketshare in a

Future of work

It’s Time to Limit Who Gets to Participate in the Creative Process

My first morning in Altamonte Springs, Florida, I was faced with a dilemma: how to travel the two miles from my hotel to city hall without a car. Walking would take nearly an hour in the sweltering...

The Long Read: Employers are turning to mathematically modelled ways of sifting through job applications. Even when wrong, their verdicts seem beyond dispute – and they tend to punish the poor

Anna Bruce-Lockhart, Editor, World Economic Forum

Internet Culture

Online services and interactions are being held back by the lack of identity systems that have the same virtues as the Internet. This post describes what we can expect from an Internet for identity.

Our writer embedded with five teenagers to chronicle their digital experiences and decipher their arcane rules and etiquette. You'll love what she found.

FinTech

Digitally focused neo- and challenger banks are continuing to grow. Today, we take a look at the world's top ten neo-banks and challenger banks.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Machines must be able to predict how objects in the real world will behave.

It’s far more likely that robots would inadvertently harm or frustrate humans while carrying out our orders than they would rise up against us

Post Capitalism

The company hopes to lure content creators to post on the platform by giving them an easy way to earn money from their videos.

Art related

London's Somerset House opens its doors Thursday to the European premiere of 'Björk Digital,' a touring exhibition of video and VR.

The musician’s otherworldly VR album-exhibition shows that technology can’t quite keep up with her galactic-scale artistic ambition

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