Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #58

The very best

Absolutely must see new documentary by Adam Curtis > a very grim view on where we are and what and who got us here and the blurring of fact and fiction: Kissinger, Assad, Khadafi, Reagan, Bush, Blair, Trump,…

About simplistic network diagrams came to dominate our imagination and why we shouldn't blindly go with the flow.

About the Platform Design Toolkit and associated white Paper that will help you navigate this New Era

About how smartphones + blockchains transform every aspect of the economy.

About Lucas Carlson’s new technothriller novel "Big Data"

Learning to work and create new business meaningfully

Talk of Facebook's anticonservative stance is in the news, but the issue of what news social networks choose to show us is much broader than that...

Knowledge was the key asset of the 20th century; imagination is the key asset for the 21st.

About complementary and competitive cognitive artifacts? (reprinted from the KINpendium, a publication of the Kellogg Innovation Network, KIN Global 2016 conference)

Robin Hanson wants to do scholarship differently. Is there a place for him in academe?

Video and transcript from Stephen Wolfram’s talk on the ethics of artificial intelligence at the NYU Philosophy Department’s Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness.

“Métier” is usually defined as: profession, craft, craftsmanship, and workmanship. I already touched on this in my blog post on Craftmanship (Sep 2015). Craftsmanship, Historical Coherence, Musicality, Authentic Observation, and Creating The Dance between host and guest are critical components of the Essence of Work. Tradition is about building on the shoulders of giants, to…

Data and Society

According to McKinsey, linking the physical and digital worlds could generate up to $11.1 trillion a year in economic value by 2025. In other words: The Internet of Things is a technology that will drive the next economy.

LONDON, NEW YORK October 20th, 2016: ID2020, a public-private organisation working to ensure access to a unique, digital identity for…

Zeitgeist

What if our disenchantment is an opportunity? This moment calls us not to fall backward into cynicism, but to face difficult truths, and to work together to create a new reality.

Mark Zuckerberg has ploughed funds into health and education but there’s a fine line between philanthropy and speculation

Innovation

How companies like Microsoft and IBM achieve their staying power.

Discover how to anticipate and overcome patterns of disruption that challenge leaders in wholesale banking.

Let a thousand AltSchools bloom.

After 10 years exploring the world, growing through unusual jobs, connecting deeply with strangers, I experienced a cultural shock when I joined a large, old, scientific company. First, I tried to cope. Then, I tried to change a few things. It didn't always work as hoped, but it was definitely instructive.

Future of work

Since the inception of business, we have been told to strive for success. There is an unwritten manual that most people follow that leads…

About understanding the job, not so much about hiring

Some life skills are more valuable than others. Here are three you probably never learned.

Talent and skills, the cornerstone of a truly functioning digital society

Fantastic documentary about the work of Christopher Alexander, explaining why architecture should be a process founded upon feeling.

Hack And Craft News

Internet Culture

In the second half of the 20th century, cultural ‘inventors’ were disproportionately people who lived in cities. Successful musicians…

There’s an idea that’s been gaining ground in the tech community lately: Everyone should learn to code. But here’s the problem with that idea: Coding is..

I carry my followers with me everywhere, and I don’t mean on my phone

FinTech

Visa Inc. today announced a preview of Visa B2B Connect, a new platform that Visa is developing to give financial institutions a simple, fast and secure way to process business-to-business payments globally.

Craig Pirrong takes a hard look at the hype surrounding blockchain technology and finds that it isn’t necessarily justified.

By Jennifer L. Schenker

Sandinavian tech firm Tieto has appointed an artificical intelligence agent to the leadership team of a new data-driven business unit, giving the bot th...

Platform Banking Taxonomy

Big events for Fintech in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam

A blockchain platform developed by a group that includes more than 70 of the world's biggest financial institutions is making its code publicly available, in what could become the industry standard for the nascent technology.

Which cross-border payments journey would you and your customers prefer?

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed speech recognition system that can understand a human conversation as well as people do. The work shows that when the speech recognition software “listened” to people talking, it was able to transcribe the conversation with the same or fewer errors than professional – human – transcriptionists.

Opinion: Algorithms are making us do their bidding, and we should be mindful.

Jobs will be lost in the age of automation but the creative industries will grow and the ability to work with ambiguity, diversity and empathy will be valued

We’re moving to an Artificial Intelligent based future, mostly for the good and AI progress should be encouraged via investment, training and education.

Sorting the good from the bad, the creepy from the adorable

Post Capitalism

David Bollier summarizes Michel Bauwens' video talk on why peer production is flourishing and out-competing conventional business models and markets.

Paul Verhaeghe: An economic system that rewards psychopathic personality traits has changed our ethics and our personalities

Why are the concepts of craft, design and beauty so important to the future of business?

Art related

Pixar Animation Studios is known for making surprisingly dark, bold storytelling choices in its movies. For movies that are meant to be accessible to children, they can be sharply daring in the...

A salutation to the one who has waged a Battle for the "Ordinary Human Existence in our Time". Disclaimer, I do not own the copyright to this documentary, al...

Other

Quest for Self-Driving in Space, Miniseries Part 1

About the rise of customers as the dominant corporate party

Target is launching a pilot program in Spring 2017 to test indoor vertical microfarms as a means for adding fresh, local produce to its inventory.