Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #53

The very best

About Frederick Taylor on steroids

Stephen Wolfram explains the importance of educating students to think computationally and how knowledge-based Wolfram Language is the first step.

The sociological concept of neo-tribalism suggests that human beings have evolved to live in tribal society as opposed to mass society.

I’ve been discussing the pressing need to better automate data science for several years. This need is prompted not only by the dramatically increasing volume,

About reality and illusion in digital banking

About refugee news articles in an artistic mix with airport architecture

About the Napalm Girls controversy

Hundreds of financial analysts are being replaced with software. What office jobs are next?

For every day that passes, I see more and more analogies between the Internet’s early years and today’s status with the blockchain’s…

Technology is not destroying creativity, but democratising the tools of creation. This is a good thing, even if the results aren't always art, say John Davies and Juan Mateos-Garcia

Data and Society

Myself and my colleague Dr. Rónán Kennedy put together a special edition of the journal/magazine Computers and Law on the topic of algorithmic governance. It consists of a diverse range of articles on the increasingly prominent role of algorithms in decision-making, and the implications this has for the law. The special edition arose from a workshop we held on the…

When I first heard about Facebook in the spring of 2004, I was excited. I heard about it from a friend who had a friend at one of the "first wave" colleges, where Facebook was spreading like wildfire (it was Stanford, if I remember correctly). It seemed way better than MySpace or Friendster or any…

Zeitgeist

Research shows the many benefits of taking notes by hand.

Innovation

How is it even possible that Elon Musk could build four multibillion companies by his mid-40s — in four separate fields (software, energy…

For shipping companies, Amazon has been great. Now it's taking business away from them.

Future of work

The small London side street reverberates with the growl of motorbikes and the shriek of horns. A young man yells hoarsely into a megaphone: “They’re gonna be disrupted, yeah! Because your lives are being disrupted, yeah! This is the money you need

Last year I turned off all my notifications. I stopped booking meetings. I started living asynchronously.

The coworking startup is using heat maps and beacons to make its real estate operating system even more efficient.

A lot of people want to write novels, exhibit their paintings in a gallery or play in a band. But the frustrating reality is that it’s very difficult to make a living on art alone. I have many creatively inclined friends who bemoan the fact that they've had to settle for a job that met the...

Internet Culture

The Emerging Frontier for Organizations

Leaders should start by asking five questions.

FinTech

A look at how Singapore, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Japan, China and India are regulating fintech startups.

Does the U.S. or China have more valuable fintech startups? This data visualization breaks down fintech unicorns by valuations, money raised, and location.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Munich Re has won the bid to underwrite the on-demand insurance platform called Trov in the U.S. The tech company’s application will begin rolling out across all 50 states in 2017.

In this article, Let's Talk Payments provides insights on the widespread presence of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday life.

Post Capitalism

A talk by Michel Bauwens

Art related

New technology yields new sounds, yet the instruments we play today are largely indebted to the past. So who's trying to make new ones? 

Other

The epic, widely celebrated Sapiens gets the sequel it demanded: a breathless, compulsive inquiry into humanity’s apocalyptic, tech-driven future