Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #65

The very best

About the sophistication of us being gamed by search, algorithms, fake news. Must read.

About sensual computing meshing the computer’s mastery of data with the human capacity for understanding.

About participatory online marketing anno 2017 (long but very good) Co-Founders of HubSpot Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah deliver Keynotes at INBOUND 2016. 

About the Ericsson ConsumerLab research consumer trends for 2017.

About Clay Shirky's Google talk about "Little Rice", his latest book on hyperinnovation in China. 

About searching for lost knowledge. As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration.

If we closely analyze the mechanics that drive todays platforms and networks, we learn — rather disturbingly — that digital platforms are designed to drive greater social inequality, not reduce it…

about the historical role of the arts and finding our common humanity

Pepe didn't swing the election.

Evgeny Morozov

Similar to a wealth advisor or wellness coach/personal trainer, the trusted advisor role presents a huge growth opportunity for businesses. These advisors proactively make recommendations aligned with its customers’ best interests, to create real value for the customer. The biggest challenge for companies trying to employ and market the services of such trusted advisors? Becoming trusted.

What if you mashed together an Echo with your desk lamp?

In 2011, the MIT Media Lab — the smarty-pants citadel of digital creativity — picked a college dropout named Joi Ito as its director. It was a puzzling choice only to those who didn’t know him. Born…

In a connected world where new forces and technologies promise to “change everything” at least twice daily, our oldest concept remains the most important: the brand. Are brands still relevant when…

Who are we not to live into our greatness? Together, let us dare greatly to make the world we want, one full of compassion, dialogue, understanding. One where we ask forgiveness for our wrongdoings…

Data and Society

Although Alex Younger does not name specific country, he makes clear that Russia is target of his remarks

Recording your voice and storing it on a server sounds alarming---OK, it is alarming---but there's a good reason why Amazon Echo and Google Home do it.

Located in Manhattan, New York City, The Glass Room is a pop-up shop, a space for reflection, experimentation and play on how our we live our lives online. Mimicking the aesthetics of a high-tech shop, the Glass Room immerses you in a different consumer experience, which allows you to re-evaluate how we use technology and how much we reveal about ourselves when we use it.

Last week the United Kingdom passed a new bill that allows for “extreme surveillance.” This Investigatory Powers Bill — better known as the “snooper’s charter” — passed parliament with scarcely a…

Dinesh could read a Bloomberg terminal like a radiologist reads an x-ray. But now he’d taught some damned machine to do his job better than he could.

This is one of a series of videos processing Trump's win, which surprised me more than it should have. I'm not only exploring blind spots and tense dynamics,...

(The following is, roughly, the text of a talk I delivered to the IP/IT/Media law discussion group at Edinburgh University on the 25th of November 2016. The text is much longer than what I actually presented and I modified some of the concluding section in light of the comments and feedback I received on the day. I would like to thank all those who were present for their challenging and constructive feedback. All of this builds on a previous post I did on the ‘logical space of algocracy’)

FlowingData

Both iconic and mysterious, this building in lower Manhattan was turned into a screen for a new movie about itself.

A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, Project X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. This film is the product of a joint reporting project between Field of Vision and The Intercept.

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Zeitgeist

Nations are fracturing into tribes

In 2017, Google will reach 100% renewable energy for our global operations — both data centers and offices. To reach this goal we’ll be directly buying enough wind and solar electricity annually to account for every unit of electricity our operations consume.

Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended.

One of the most interesting trends in technology has nothing to do with AI, or machine learning, or the on demand economy. It has nothing to do with informatics and its impact on genomics, or whether…

Burning Man, the Nevada desert festival that draws some 60,000 revelers every year, is an annual pilgrimage that resembles religious ritual: It requires travel to a far-off place in the desert, 10 guiding social laws intended to catalyze self-actualization, and the burning of an effigy. Yesterday (December 6) the festival's co-founder Larry Harvey made clear that Burning Man is now closer to...

If Burning Man was not a spiritual event before, this year it promises to be.

Innovation

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Nikola unveiled the hydrogen-powered Nikola One big-rig to help drive the trucking industry towards renewable energy.

On December 1, 2016, Nikola Motor Company unveiled its electric sleeper semi-truck, the Nikola One. In addition to unveiling the Nikola One, Nikola made seve...

The emerging age of agile.

Dwindling gains in science, medicine and technology hold back growth; is America too risk-averse?

As I flew away from Amazon Web Services’ Re:Invent developer conference, my first thought was how there is far, far more going…

In April 2012, Hans Joergen Wiberg presented an unusual idea at a startup event in Denmark. Wilberg, being visually impaired, had identified an opportunity to help blind people cope with everyday…

Future of work

Government of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy

The Inside team (but especially @jason) was blown away yesterday by the news about Amazon’s new Seattle market, the grab-and-go Amazon Go store. So we decided to do what we do and write a lengthy…

The technology is called "Just Walk Out."

AWS is an innovation machine. And when you’re already regarded as many orders of magnitude bigger than your nearest competitors, that’s a powerful combination.

Amazon Go is a new supermarket concept that eliminates check out for shoppers, and commentators quickly point out that this will lead to no checkout clerks, hence the apocalyptic headline on the New…

The Thiel Fellowship was created to prove a college degree doesn’t matter. It became one of the most elite credentials for young entrepreneurs. We take a look at how the fellowship has changed.

Every org chart has the leader at the top or in the middle. But the most important person in any organisation is not the leader. It's the customer.

Internet Culture

Everybody has good ideas of things we want to make on the Internet. But honestly, it’s gotten too hard. Gomix fixes that. If you’re not a professional developer, the barriers are way too high. There…

This week, Amazon announced that it's launching a new type of grocery store. You walk in, pick up the boxes of food you want, and you walk out. Thanks to a combination of modern tracking technology, artificial intelligence, and a mobile app that has your payment information, you don't need to interact with a single other human to...

Remember gadgets? They were wonderful, and now they’re no more.

FinTech

This article from Lets Talk Payments talks about the illusion of payment disruption.

David Rutter, founder and CEO of the four-year-old, New York-based blockchain startup R3 took the stage at Disrupt London this morning to discuss the progress..

This article from Lets Talk Payments talks about Santander InnoVentures investing in Tradeshift.

The non-for-profit Stellar network has launched a Blockchain-backed money transfer to compete with SWIFT.

Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology: From code is law to law is code

Oliver T. Bussmann Global C-Level Executive | Board Director | Information Technology | Banking, Insurance & Asset Management

Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics

AI, Robots, Algorythms

'The age of industrialization is coming to an end,' due to the rise of robotics and China's modernising economy, argues Bernstein.

Artificial intelligence sheds new light on classic texts. Literary theorists who don’t embrace it face obsolescence

Artificial intelligence will have a significant and lasting impact on the ways we live and work.

Post Capitalism

Hack And Craft News

Art related

Tape, printed or gaffer tape, double-sided or packing tape – I don`t care as long as it produces such great art. And Tape is a great medium to create linear shapes. So, here are 20 fantastic examples of Tape Art.

the space is the only permanent public museum exhibit designed by zaha hadid anywhere in the world, and the first completed project in the UK since the architect's passing.

Lil Buck at Fondation Louis Vuitton

Hadid's prescient early paintings and drawings look as though they could have been made on a computer.

Other

Art is often a mirror, reflecting the social issues and problems of the day. With the rise of ubiquitous Internet, smart phones, and other Internet enabled devices, being online all the time is not only possible, it's the de facto state for many.This list of satirical illustrations highlight some of the biggest problems with technology addiction. Which one has the strongest message? Vote on your favorite, or if we've missed an image that you think should be in this list, upload it below!

Have you ever experienced a keynote or presentation that you couldn’t stop thinking about? At Inbound 2016 there were 100+ breakout sessions, keynotes from top thought leaders and interviews with…

Google just opened up "Google Home" to developers today, so I made a fake app to troll my kids after they "misbehave". If you want to learn how to develop yo...

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