Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #54

The very best

About how technologically enabled persistent crowds impact society

Algorithms shape choice not just for consumers but for businesses.

About designing to protect the control rights of individuals

The rise of the corporate colossus threatens both competition and the legitimacy of business

About no-in-the-skin policy making intellectuals and journalism

The pressing challenge for media companies is to define what they are, not what Facebook is. Together and individually, they’re going to have to decide precisely what kinds of nodes they want to be — or whether they want to be nodes at all. That’s not going to be easy. But if you hand the fox your chickens and tell him he must take proper care of them, you have only yourself to blame if you come round the next day and find a pile of feathers

So you think Apple is a tech company? No, you’re wrong.

At this year's Innotribe Sibos, we have a session about digital ethics. Part of a full day on man-machine convergence. Some of that conversation will be about the use and control of data. With this post, I would like to add my perspective to that conversation, based on some recent thinking on human agency. At…

My college students are never entirely present in class, addicted to texts and tech. Is there any hope left for learning?

Data and Society

Some 1.5 billion people lack a legal identity. The blockchain technology that underpins bitcoin could be the answer.

Love, 31, who has Asperger syndrome, could face a 99-year prison sentence for hacking into missile defence centres

Carl Malamud’s epic crusade to make public information public has landed him in court.

Zeitgeist

Stefan Zweig was dead by the time The World of Yesterday came out. He posted the manuscript to his publisher and the next day he and his…

The worldunstable, warming, and increasingly connectedneeds not only to respond to this refugee crisis, but to be better prepared each and every time...

Innovation

This article is part of a series about how organizations can survive their Day After Tomorrow (DAT) by focusing on radical innovation.

In a game of chess, there are occasions when you’ll have almost your entire army of pieces still on the board, but positioned in such a way that their systematic downfall is all but assured. As The...

Future of work

A Break to Discuss Breaks After last week's post on attention residue, multiple readers have asked about taking breaks during deep work sessions. These

After launching NomadList and RemoteOk, Pieter Levels became something of a common name in the burgeoning digital nomad community. Online he could be seen posting photos from Hong Kong one day, and tweeting from Thailand the next. His blog quickly became a place of inspiration for despairing office workers stuck at their 9 to 5...

Comment: Pat Kane is curating the Play theme of this year's FutureFest. Here he shares why play will be our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating in the 21st century

Internet Culture

The company's CEO talks about focusing on news, ramping up video, incorporating AI, balancing safety with freedom of speech, and more.

FinTech

Apple Pay hit the web this week. That is more interesting than you think...

Facebook is taking its recently launched Messenger chatbot platform to the next level, letting bots accept payments without having to send users to exte...

Kantox launches Dynamic Hedging, a unique solution that allows companies to fully automate the management of their multi-currency operations.

Entrepreneurship & the Id Machine

Many of us work in technology because we think it is the best lever we have to effect change in the world. For example, the internet and…

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Bottlenose, a company founded by a grandson of management consultant pioneer Peter Drucker, is looking to democratize data science with a new platform that applies AI to the practice of business intelligence, and presents findings in an environment that business people can use.

In 1997, when I was a graduate student studying computer science, I published my first novel, a parable about the dangers of approaching…

Post Capitalism

Basic income is to the social state what the flat tax is to the tax system.

Art related

After years of planning and digitizing, the museum is putting almost 33,000 exhibition photographs online, along with hundreds of catalogs and more.

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