Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #66

The very best

About getting prepared for rapid change. 

About what makes things cool? Answer: MAYA = “Most Advanced Yet Acceptable”

About applying Hannah Arendt's philosophy to the post-software-eats-world human condition

About the return of the edge and the end of cloud computing.

About a new form of information manipulation unfolding in front of our eyes. It is political. It is global. And it is populist in nature.

About Google being ground zero

That was the first audience question I received after giving a talk on humanizing the workplace, based on my book, The Business Romantic, to 3,000 Brazilian business leaders at a management forum in…

Ten months ago I published The Cloud Wars of 2016, which racked up more than 50,000 views on Medium (it’s a LOT of visits for a niche topic like this one) and countless comments and shares, and it…

New trends like the Internet of Things are forcing internet infrastructure to change again.

Confronting Fundamental Problems of the Human Condition and Pressing Problems of the Day

My big idea is that we have to fix the internet. After 40 years, it has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous and miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the…

It’s commonplace idea now that — as a designer or founder — if you want to make the best of the possibilities that technology offers and, at the same time, leverage on the increasing potential of…

Data and Society

Cognitive Easing is the aim of much of our endeavor, whether explicit or implicit. We have never wavered from trying to create a life of ease, enjoyment, and fulfillment. The definition of Cognitive Easing is spending less mental effort to achieve a result.

About never again creation of databases of identifying information for the United States government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin

We live in the age of information, which means that we also live in the age of misinformation. Indeed, you have likely come across more bullshit so far this week than a normal person living 1,000 years ago would in their entire lifetime. If we wer...

Here's why a simple address is no small matter.

What belongs at the top of your search results? Algorithms have evolved over decades to overcome the shortcomings of different metrics, but as the recent controversy over Google’s Holocaust search results demonstrated, the ones we have today aren’t perfect yet.

Services like Google and Facebook may seem free, but they actually come at a cost: your personal data. Find out what it's worth to marketers and brokers.

Following the first UBS Future of Finance Forum, we're pleased to present a new white paper providing insights into the ever-evolving area of Digital Identity and the role banks and technology will play in finding secure solutions.

Zeitgeist

An enormous and probably definitive guide to the life, times and genius of Alan Turing captures his extraordinary diversity for the first time

Con artists

Her name is Aristotle, and she has eyes, and ears, inside your child's bedroom.

James Dyson is excited about the SafetyNet invention, Jim Al-Khalili can’t wait to study Saturn up close and Amanda Levete looks to a resurgence of civic space

a look at the year ahead! will it be a good one? we foresee major tech trends you'll be working and playing with in 2017and the design developments that will impact upon.

The government's research-and-development arm has some exciting predictions for the world of tomorrow.

The Netscape founder and tech investor talks about the trouble with stock markets, what he looks for in entrepreneurs and why illegal immigration is good for America

Since 2012 Mirik Milan has been night mayor of Amsterdam, tasked with supporting the city's nightlife and after-hours economy. Geraldine Bedell speaks to Milan about juggling the city's diverse needs – and what London's new night tsar can learn from his experience

Innovation

Innovation in Large Organizations; Like Mixing Oil and Water

Photo: Inside Out / Disney Pixar (TBD: 2015) “IT’S FOLLY TO THINK YOU CAN AVOID CHANGE, NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU MIGHT WANT TO. BUT ALSO, TO MY MIND, YOU SH…

Alphabet’s CFO Ruth Porat wants to bring focus to Mountain View. Can the moonshot factory adapt?

A conversation with Lorna Davis, Chief Manifesto Catalyst of food company Danone, about how to bring manifestos to life and why even Fortune 500 businesses are like families.

For years, people have told us group brainstorms don’t work. And yet, we keep right on brainstorming. We have a problem to solve, we have a group of people, and somebody says, “Let’s brainstorm…

Hack And Craft News

Before it starts building airships, it's fighting just to get U.S. drone delivery off the ground.

Incorporate vision and improvisation.

To properly understand globalization, you need to start 200,000 years ago. Richard Baldwin skillfully takes on this daunting task in a new book, starting all the way back with the hunter-gatherers. For too long, he says, traditional analysis of trade has been too narrow, he argues. The economist, who is a professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and president...

Future of work

A conversation with Amy Whitaker, author of the new book, Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses. Even the most fervent defender of the corporate…

ob search and discovery powered by machine learning

The Curmudgeonly Optimist People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand, I'm a

Chaos should not be the natural state at work

Las Vegas, Nevada “We want to believe that we are thinking, rational people and on occasion tangle with emotion, flick it out of the way, and go back to thinking,” renown vulnerability expert Brene Brown told a packed house at the Smith Center in downtown Las Vegas just before Labor Day Weekend. “That is not the truth. The...

Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered?

“Will work still be the place where we integrate individuals into societies?“ asks End of Shift — The Robots Are Taking Over, a new documentary on the future of work by filmmaker Klaus Martens that…

How will organizations evolve in 2017? Will we see a slow, gentle evolution towards more collaboration? Or could change be more radical and brutal? Brexit, Trump... what happened in 2016 in the political arena could very well impact business organizations too.

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Derek Sivers: This is just a self-indulgent bit about myself — something I feel like describing, because I find it unusual and interesting.

Internet Culture

"[you are] the only one around who is clinically sane" concludes Werner Herzog after speaking with Ted Nelson in his latest film, Lo and Behold.

Silicon Valley’s startup scene celebrates iconoclasts and rule breakers. But are entrepreneurs taking “fake it till you make it” too far?

All civilization has ever been is the process by which humanity invents new tools to organize itself. These tools we call tech. At one point, religion was the primary tech man used to organize itself…

FinTech

In 2014, Simple bask was acquired by banking group BBVA for $117M — and in 2016 “Simple banks” across the world raised $269M (to be honest, more than $300M, because it is only major names — check…

We wish you all a happy new year and we look forward to working with you in 2017!

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

In this article, Let's Talk Payments provides an overview of 88 startup accelerators/incubators/innovation labs around the world.

Tradeshift founder and CEO Christian Lanng says he doesn't think global trade has peaked and Brexit and Trump are actually good for business.

The Absolute Ultimate Guide of Who’s Who in FinTech (Reloaded)

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Or several pegs.

The common science fiction trope is of AI that is becomes sentient and turns against us. But if we can create thinking robots, what rights will they...

There have been several discussions lately around machine intelligence that are started to converge in how they may change competition and regulation in ...

A small silicone gadget attached to the chest gives its wearer the ability to sense which direction they face. Could it prompt a ‘cyborg’ evolution in human ability?

Research points to ways that machine-learning programs could be tricked into doing unwanted things.

One of the barriers standing in the way of ethically designed AI systems that benefit humanity as a whole, and avoid the pitfalls of embedded algorithmic..

Five years ago the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) released Big Data: The Next Frontier For Innovation, Competition, and Productivity, and in the years since McKinsey sees data science adoption and value accelerate, specifically in the areas of machine learning and deep learning.

Post Capitalism

The first is the inequality people tolerate, such as one’s understanding compared to that of people deemed heroes, say Einstein, Michelangelo, or the recluse mathematician Grisha Perelman, in…

1 The Trickle Down Theory of Shakedown. In the house of autocracy, everything becomes a shakedown. Everything. You think you know what that means. You don’t. It means: a little bribe, a little graft…

Donald Trump is to democracy what 2008 was to capitalism: a profound wake-up call reminding us that the system is broken and in urgent need of an “upgrad...

Art related

Startup accelerators have become an integral part of helping early-stage companies build, fund and bring to market new products and ideas. Recently, we’ve..

tina roth eisenberg | swiss designer gone NYC

In honour of Gustav Klimt's birthday, BBC Culture asked readers to share their favourite works by the Austrian painter.

Six months ago, I wrote some thoughts on the paradigm shift in how museums think about the balance between preserving an artwork and sharing it with the public. My conclusion was this: time-based…

how the female form can and will take up space, reclaim streets at night and above all, have fun

The legendary composer Philip Glass discusses authorship, and getting paid for what you make, in the age of digital streaming.

Never meet your heroes. At least that’s what the old adage suggests—of course, whoever coined that term had apparently never met Brian Eno, who has just ha

Other

About Seasteading. Don't dismiss the idea of establishing human settlements at sea. Think of cruise ships.

Despite the hype, DNA testing may not reveal as much about yourself as you would hope. Its real value lies elsewhere

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