Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #61

The very best

About Otto Scharmer's movement for a deeper level of collective awareness and renewal. Based on Theory-U. Nothing new, but highly relevant now. 

About radical humanism. As we adjust to living digital cheek by digital jowl in our hyper-connected world, we’re rapidly approaching a technological shift that will be even bigger than the Internet — the union of man and…

About meta-strategy. Fascinating talk. Love the metaphor of the gearbox. Many different layers of thinking. Really good stuff

About Anticipatory Design, Narratives and Aesthetics. 

About the complete disconnect of politicians and WEF from reality. In this case, Danish member of parliament. Progressivism without a cause... Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city — or should I say, “our city”. I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes. It might seem odd…

About a professor of cognitive science arguing that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.

About technological de-condensation and (lacking) sacred wholeness

About maps distorting reality and perspective collisions > ”We don’t have a hardware problem, we have a socialware problem” Global technology ethnographerTricia Wang emphasizes the inherent risks in thinking of the...

About what evolution has to work with. The future of Homo sapiens is tantalisingly sketched out in a new book that favours reality over speculation

I was invited to a one day event on Identity at the US Dept. of Treasury this past Friday. Treasury officials had invited a healthy cross…

There has never been a better time to be alive, and yet in the richest countries, there is a growing sense of unease and helplessness because people no longer feel useful.

Nineteenth-century diversions could offer some clues about the medium’s potential.

10 reasons why deep learning is living up to the hype

Data and Society

(originally published by O’Reilly here, this year in collaboration with my amazing partner James Cham! If you’re interested in enterprise implications of this chart please refer to Harvard Business…

The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us.

Devices can now communicate with each other via ultrasound, as the Internet of Things reaches the next level – but experts warn of security risks

We are living in an era defined and shaped by data. Data makes the world go round. It is politics, it is culture, it is everyday life and it is business. Our..

Who is benefiting more from the cyberisation of intelligence, the spooks or their foes?

Zeitgeist

Brexit and Trump; applied CRISPR and the Gigafactory; the rise of self-driving vehicles, the fall of pollsters; the global saturation of smartphones, the..

Great contextualization of Trump by Jerry Michalski. This was published before the election of Trump

Short version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ci_SU67Q0&feature=youtu.be

We will all likely remember the 2016 election cycle for the rest of our lives. Why did it happen? How did Donald Trump make it so far? What might we do now? ...

Most tech industry leaders railed against the Republican, but some are now changing their tune as they consider what his presidency will mean

Innovation

Hack And Craft News

Future of work

Listen to the audio podcast interview with Rod Falcon here. Subscribe to the IFTF podcast on iTunes | RSS | Soundcloud | Download MP3 In his 1854 book, Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Men have…

Internet Culture

Levy-Weiss and Currier are Partners at NFX Guild, an early-stage fund with a three-month program for businesses utilizing network effects. Facebook, Uber and WhatsApp: Why “Platform Applications” Are…

The view that more information produces better decisions is at odds with the world around us.

FinTech

The Most Promising Pioneers Of Finance Technology

Why can't companies wanting to share business logic and data just install a distributed database? What is the essential difference between a distributed database and a distributed ledger? Last month, I shared the thinking that led to the design of Corda, which we at R3 will be open sourcing on November 30; and Mike Hearn and I…

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Good post on the Rise of the bots by Bart De Waele (in Dutch)

I want to argue yes. I am not a pessimist though and even very optimistic, as you will find, but for now just clear your mind and hear me out. I basically have three main arguments. They all concern data.

Post Capitalism

Art related

Directed by speculative architect Liam Young and written by fiction author Tim Maughan and designed ‘Where the City Can’t See’ is the world’s…

More and more companies are working to adapt 2D visualization systems for a 3D world.