Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #59

The very best

About the elite class of omnipotent central bankers having gained extraordinary political power and the populist backlash shattering their technocratic dream

About the launch of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence to study the positive and negative implications of AI and ethical quandaries it poses

About the cyberpunk mental model

About The Evolution from Monocultures to Polycultures

About how our close relationship with technology has made it easy for our devices to creep us out

About Gerd Leonhard's latest book "Technology Vs Humanity"

About the ethics of influence. The quest to keep behavioral economics in policy after Obama's presidency.

He’s a forgotten hippie idol, a sage of 1960s counterculture. What can we learn from Bucky Fuller’s faith in technology?

I’m inside Tim Cook’s head but I really wonder what’s going on inside Mark Zuckerberg’s head?

Data and Society

Using machine learning, computers have come up with codes that let them send secret messages to each other – but they’re still a long way off humans

Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how “trustworthy” you are.

Zeitgeist

The use of camera drones has been made illegal in Sweden unless they are granted a special surveillance permit.

In the early morning hours of October 20th, an 18-wheeler tractor trailer pulled into Colorado Springs, Colorado, bearing 50,000 frosty cans of Budweiser beer. Normally, this would not be a...

Qualcomm, the company already responsible for providing the majority of the world with its mobile processors and wireless modems, is endeavoring to make itself even more indispensable to our future...

Innovation

How well does your company respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide provides Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you act quickly—and demonstrates how and why you need to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than to just one department or team.…

Within a decade, 'Uber Elevate' could provide network of on demand, fully electric aircraft.

Hack And Craft News

What happens to a company when a visionary CEO is gone? Most often innovation dies and the company coasts for years on momentum and its brand. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why. Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later…

Employee engagement is a problem. To fix it, encourage your workers to break rules and be themselves. We’ll show you who does it right and how you can too.

Many leaders of corporate innovation efforts struggle to get the support they need from executives higher up in the organization. Top executives can be skilled

Should Every Company Pursue Radical Innovation?

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Hack And Craft News

Future of work

For 20 years, Mira Nakashima singularly focused on mastering the craft of woodworking alongside her father, her perfectionist teacher. After finally taking over the family’s studio, she looks back and answers the question: Was the sacrifice worth it?

I’ve long been a fan of flows but, in the spirit of paradox, I’ve also been a fan of friction. But, wait a minute, friction slows down flows – how could I possibly favor both flows and friction? Until recently,...

In this talk Tim O'Reilly is explaining how the on-demand economy, AI,robotics, & other technologies are transforming the nature of work & the future shape o...

Internet Culture

We think of technology as using computer science, biology or chemistry. But what if we consider the corporation itself as a kind of technology? It's possible to see the corporation as a technology for organizing labor, resources and capital towards the creation of economic and social value. So what defines a techonomic company?

INSIDE SOCIAL MEDIA Exposing the Invisible has released a series of interviews, films, detailed how-tos, tool reviews and case studies that explore how social media can be used to carry out investigations.

FinTech

As reported by Reuters last week, Corda, the Distributed Ledger platform we’ve been working hard on at R3 for the last year at will be open sourced on November 30. What is it? Why are we building it? What happens next? Corda is a distributed ledger platform designed and built from the ground up for…

This past February, I wrote a post outlining my belief that a sure path to building an enduring, multi-billion dollar business was to build…

Why Zuckerberg, Gates And Omidyar Are Investing In Fintech For The Poor

Rod Drury says blockchain is "mathematically interesting" but increased surveillance and tribalism means it's unlikely to work in finance or banking.

Innovation is gaining momentum in financial services. But, how fast will it spread, and how much change can we expect? There may come a time when the notion of visiting a bank branch becomes as quaint as when the milkman used to deliver door-to-door, or when doctors made house calls.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

As bots grow up, like us, their bugs become their features

From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?

A Swiss lab develops robotic exoskeleton tech for good.

The company’s scientists think its voice bot will be the biggest thing since search.

Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp says he is considering taking his big data startup public.

Post Capitalism

New banking rules baffle humans; can machines do better?

Blockchain, the technology underlying Bitcoin, could be used to run anything from a protest movement to a nation – promising an impartial and networked democracy suited to 21st century life. It's an exciting prospect, but can it actually work?

Art related

Inside a Berlin workshop where material and form unite for new meaning

Watch 400 paper birds flap and flock in mid-air

Other

Author and Speaker Scott Berkun

Chade-Meng Tan, a former engineer, joined Google in 2000 as employee number 107. Though he played an instrumental role in building Google's mobile search function, among other technological feats, he's better known for the mindfulness classes he later led for employees. The role earned him the job title of Jolly Good Fellow (Which Nobody Can Deny), which he parlayed into a mindfulness...