Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #57

The very best

About new epic film by Adam Curtis, to be released on Sunday 16 Oct 2016. Welcome to the post-truth world. You know it’s not real. But you accept it as normal

About the "Data Chain": an analysis of 130 data startups. The Internet was a revolution because it reorganized a large part of the economy and society around the network structure, becoming a…

About the 10 minutes in a year where you get to actually lead. The rest is what I call "leadering," which might as well be done by a bot in the future.

About Salonnières and the exercise of human virtue, etiquette, sensitivity, and kindness to others.

About Jeremy Rifkin's cataclysm-preventing layers…they’re like the antioxidants of economics. On the latest episode of The McFuture podcast, I spoke with the remarkable Jeremy Rifkin. He’s the best-selling author of The Zero Marginal Cost Society, advisor to Angela Merkel and the EU, and a Wharton lecturer. Having that many credentials is surely punishable by hard labor in any self-respecting banana republic... Like [...]

Hacking corporate organizational armours

Emotional Education: An Introduction - The Book of Life is the 'brain' of The School of Life, a gathering of the best ideas around wisdom and emotional intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future with Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind. How far can AI really take us? In this special event at the RSA, ...

Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines

At Exile, we have forged a new path aligning ecological, economic, journalistic and policy development. We see this synthesis as the future…

Recently, Google launched a video calling tool (yes, another one). Google Hangouts has been sidelined to Enterprise, and Google Duo is supposed to be the next..

Data and Society

The president in conversation with MIT's Joi Ito and WIRED editor-in-chief Scott Dadich.

The Long Read: We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation setting us up for disaster?

What if the data generated by sharing economy platforms were turned into a commons, defended by Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses? Read the proposal here.

Zeitgeist

The philosopher Peter Singer, who regularly tops lists of the most influential people worldwide, is known for his controversial, yet highly convincing, utilitarian outlook. Utilitarian ethicists believe that the consequences of an action determine whether or not it’s moral. Grounded in this discipline, Singer has argued, among other things, that: Failing to donate excess wealth...

2016 update of @Kevin2 Kelly 's 2008 post

Stéphanie Thomson, Editor, World Economic Forum

Innovation

Hack And Craft News

How Marc Pritchard works with Google, Facebook, and Snapchat to help P&G transition to a new world order

Alexander Osterwalder invented the Business Model Canvas, co-founded strategyzer.com and was the lead author of Business Model Generation which sold a million copies in 30 languages. Alexander and I often collaborate on new ideas for corporate innovation.  Here’s his guest post on what bad habits to avoid inside of a company. Big companies have great execution habits…

Here’s the final release of Design Tools created to help you design collaborative services for the Ecosystems of 21st century

If you're sick of hearing about disruption, blame Clayton Christensen, who introduced the concept into business jargon. Christensen is possibly the most influential management thinker in Silicon Valley. His 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma, was embraced by Intel's Andy Grove, quoted by Steve Jobs, and called one of the six best business books ever by The Economist. In it,...

Change is frightening to many elements inside the typical organization. Change threatens people’s power, their status, their egos, and, in some situations, even

You were a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group for many years but recently left to found Pioneer Square Labs. You employ a different model for building..

About the agency costs of innovation. The Nobel Prize in Economics has been announced, and what a deserving prize it is: Bengt Holmstrom and Oliver Hart have won for the theory of contracts. The name of this research weblog is "A Fine Theorem", and it would be hard to find two economists whose work is more likely to elicit such a…

When it comes to open innovation, knowing where to start or what to do next can often be the hardest decision. This uncertainty leads to inaction and missed

In the previous post, we gave an overview of the Open Innovation Methods Matrix below, and defined the varying degrees of openness (the X-axis) and the

The founder of Tesla, SolarCity, and SpaceX is deservedly admired for his technological insight. But is his latest business plan reckless?

At the BYD stand during the Beijing Auto Show 2016 (Photo: FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) More than 2 million electric vehicles may be on the world’s roads by the end of 2016, wrote the Guardian, citing data of the electric vehicle world database EV Volumes. That should be good news for electric [...]

Future of work

(An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston Globe)

The hazards of a world where mediocrity rules

A look back at a classic study of 1950s-era corporate culture sheds light on how companies can make the workplace more hospitable to strivers of all genders.

Economic growth is about value added. In manufacturing it was adding value as a transformation process from raw materials to goods…

As well as the relationship between performance and value.

Some companies are swapping the live format with one-way, recorded interviews. Can that give job seekers a leg up?

Internet Culture

China's Baidu Inc said on Wednesday it has established a 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) investment fund, Baidu Capital, as the country's dominant search engine seeks a way to remain relevant in the smartphone era and beyond.

Watch out, Top 40: string ensembles are heading Bach to Brooklyn.

FinTech

This article from Lets Talk Payments talks about how the upcoming W3C payment request API standardization can change the online payments space.

Learn how blockchain technology is set to transform society with this new video from Digital Catapult and Furtherfield.

Max Levchin

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Machine Learning Top 10 Articles for the Past Month. In this observation, we ranked nearly 1,900 articles posted in September 2016 about machine learning,…

Side Note: Don’t forget to check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 too.

Artificial Intelligence, DeepMind and Playing on the 5th Line

Summary:  What comes next after Deep Learning?  How do we get to Artificial General Intelligence?  Adversarial Machine Learning is an emerging space that point…

The top minds in computer science at the BSI and IEEE are acting before it's too late, working to formulate industry guidelines for future robot serva...

Post Capitalism

It’s time to rethink the role that government plays in shaping and supporting policies to solve big problems like climate change and income inequality.

The rise of platform cooperativism in Australia

Art related

Before he was a legend, architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his early work, from his house in Venice Beach to the American Center in Paris, which was under construction (and much on his mind) when he gave this talk.

The [NYC Dance Project](http://www.nycdanceproject.com) is set to launch a new book, The Art of Movement, featuring breathtaking portraits of more tha...

within the church of the jacobins in toulouse, hans op de beeck has staged a fictional environment that leads visitors through 'the garden of whispers'.

Ma Yansong of Chinese architects MAD explains his concept for a "shan-shui city", a high density urban development shaped like a mountain range.

If you know where to look, you can spot the physical architecture of the internet everywhere: little-known junction boxes, mysterious markings and cables on every street.

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