Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #63

The very best

About the fundamental new capability - to read images

About change agents and 21st century leadership and leading  with our humanity, as leading with structure is no longer sufficient in a world that is shifting towards the value of experiences over things. Every great business idea is born…

About a framework for thinking about ethics in AI.

About people-centered economies vs. task-centered economies. It can be possible to create a discipline of economics that is highly efficient and people-centered, seeing personal relations as meaning and wealth creation as means. The purpose of such economics…

About Onlyness: what only you can see, do, and share.

Nilofer Merchant, Fellow at The Martin Prosperity Institute and author of the upcoming book “Onlyness", shared with The 2016 3% Conference a new construct for how to triumph over the status quo.

About ethics in programming. How did our industry start, what paths did it take to get to where we are, and where is it going. What big problems did programmers encounter in the past? Ho...

The role as a designer, or even as an engineer has become more influential and powerful than ever. The work we do makes an impact and naturally brings up the discussion around ethics, responsibility…

Notes from a writer’s visit to Web Summit

Self-creation as an act of faith

Data and Society

Never mind fake news and Trump/Pence, what we should be fearful of is Facebook’s algorithms, and their relentless pursuit of economic self-interest

Facebook is on the defensive after the elections, with accusations that it helped spread misinformation.  For days, Mark Zuckerberg was adamant that his network had not affected the election results, calling that “a pretty crazy idea”.  But after a torrent of criticism from his employees and the media—and evidence to back it up—he relented and took […]

A conference in London this week brings together military and intelligence officials hoping to use social media as a tool in the armed forces.

Speaking before members of Congress, the internet pioneer made clear the dangers of the internet of things.

Zeitgeist

Nationalists descended on the nation’s capitol Saturday,

The Hollywood Reporter published a profile of Stephen K. Bannon on Nov. 18 that set off a minor Internet shit storm. “Darkness is good,” Bannon, the chief strategist for president-elect Donald Trump…

Youthful optimism can be hard to find in Japan, where millennials rank as the gloomiest of those in the world’s biggest economies.

Future of work

Our increasing addiction to the constant stimulus of updates, likes and posts is damaging our ability to concentrate deeply and focus on work that matters.

This time last year my wife, Emily and I were kicking off an experiment to answer a fairly big question: That experiment, to build an online learning site and a suite of useful tools for primarily…

Internet Culture

Note: this post has been excerpted, expanded and adapted from my new book “Technology vs Humanity” (read more here, buy it onAmazon, buy singles or bulk orders from the publisher — use discount code…

FinTech

Blockchain company R3 CEV has reduced the amount it aims to raise from bank members in its first large round of equity funding to $150 million from $200 million and is changing the structure of the deal, according to a person familiar with the plans.

In this article, Let's Talk Payments provides an overview of blockchain companies in Singapore.

CB Insights and KPMG present the Q3 2016 Pulse of Fintech report, covering global financing trends for fintech companies.

“Instead of presenting a payment, you’re presenting your identity,”

Many of us at ConsenSys believe the Ethereum community should be excited about the launch of Zcash and the incredible partnership opportunities that exist to bring both blockchains closer to…

wiki - The Ethereum Wiki -

Digital Payments outfit Stripe has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round which values America's top fintech dog at more than $9 billion.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Prediction is about to get way cheaper.

The new Facebook app will run deep neural networks on your phone, helping to open the door for the next wave in AI.

Products such as Semantic Scholar and Microsoft Academic could be a boon for scholars

Post Capitalism

Rising inequality is largely to blame for this electoral upset. Continuing with business as usual is not an option

Art related

Are art and science of distinctly different cultures? The former often seems fixated on human experience, the latter on physical processes.…

Last October, 2015, I wrote a note on Facebook called “Production-Year 2016–2017”. Essentially, as is my ongoing tradition, every year in the Fall I make an official Declaration called the…

As you know, I am an artist and an artist usually has an art studio. I have one which I call The Historiothèque. The Historiothèque is my “Atelier” or my “Workspace”, what I sometimes call a…

As a fashion designer, Stella McCartney has always challenged the way in which things are made, actively turning to innovation in order to operate a global business built on sustainability. Today, she's striving to push parent company, Kering, towards the same.

China's richest man and the highest-grossing Hollywood auteur have struck a deal to work together to produce and finance films for China.

A hearing-impaired musician is developing a technology to visualize sounds, so that people like him can experience live concerts. Myles de Bastion is creating an algorithm that maps notes, chords and other musical elements to LED lights, creating a display that tracks the music in real time. Early versions of his system have debuted at music...

Other

And how it has just as much a right to be considered one as any of the other three.

Fusing functional design and family fun in the British architect’s London home