Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #69

The very best

About Homo Prospectus. What best distinguishes human beings from other animals is our foresight, as scientists are just beginning to recognize.

About the illusion of problem solving and creative orientation in business

About the structural (not jobs) impact of AI @jamessurowiecki

The New Utopia of Business Culture: about flow and sectors without borders

“cyber public health”

Once you adopt Flow, the feelings of positivity, energy and productivity are really invigorating. Individuals and teams are energised, especially once the old barriers to delivery are broken down. These include silos, inefficient hand-off’s between teams or communications locked into untimely reports and not shared in the moment. That last issue is one of our big…

How 3D printing, AI and IoT will impact the manufactoring industry.

Data and Society

By Nabil Hassein Researchers have documented the frequent inability of facial recognition software to detect Black people’s faces due to programmers' use of unrepresentative data to train machine learning models.1 This issue is not unique, but systemic; in a related example, automated passport photo validation has registered Asian people's open eyes as being closed.2 Such…

Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA.

Zeitgeist

I recently came to an important realisation: I will most likely see the so-called Singularity happen in my own lifetime. I’m 56, and I believe that this inflection point at which computers, ‘thinking machines’ and AI become infinitely and recursively powerful is no more than 20-25 years away,...

Getty Images is working to change perceptions around women in tech and men in the home with photo sets that debunk outdated stereotypes.

Innovation

I help executives drive transformation initiatives. One of the most challenging of these initiatives is the journey from strategy to action. This journey from head to heart to hands (or from strategy…

Last December together with Daniele, Valeria and Marta we organized at Cohub, in Milan, one of the many Positive Platforms Design Jam that were held simultaneously around the world. The initiative…

Future of work

We’re working with prominent thinkers and leading CEOs to make sustainable business practices reachable for all companies.

next 36 months will be more critical to their industries than the previous 50 years

Internet Culture

I thought my mind was through getting blown until I heard in mid-June 2017 that Brave raised $35 million in less than 30 seconds, though an ICO (Initial Coin Offering). I did know ICOs were hot stuff. I also knew Brave's ICO was about to happen, because Brendan Eich, the company CEO, said so over breakfast two days earlier.

Metamarkets handles a lot of data. The torrent of data that clients send to us surpasses a petabyte a week. At this scale, the ability to failover gracefully...

We are now headed toward the age of intelligent, real-time, on-the-go assistance, and it makes mobile and any connected device more instrumental in how consumers find brands and make decisions.

FinTech

Lex Sokolin

“The financial services industry will see more change in the next 10 years than it has in the last 100. And that transformation is being driven by a grou...

More money had been raised in the last few months by Initial Coin Offerings than through traditional venture capital investing

Zen Protocol came out of stealth mode to provide an Ethereum alternative that never runs out of gas, and provides finance functionality to smart-contracts.

More consumers are using fintech products than ever before with China a clear global leader.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

We are beset by—and immersed in—apps and devices that are quietly reducing the amount of meaningful interaction we have with each other.

It’s not designed to remind you of an insect, though. It’s meant to bring robot hacking to the masses.

The pace of change may make regulation by humans impossible.

Post Capitalism

About mining slavery, anno 2017. Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China A decade ago, after a speculative coal boom fizzled, the once-thriving desert city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, became China’s largest ghost town, littered with unfinished or empty buildings and desperate for another way to make money. Blessed like most of China with cheap labor, land, and, most important, cheap electricity, Ordos threw...

Art related

Stunning construction photos of Zaha Hadid Architects’ Leeza SOHO tower and its record-setting atrium

You've noticed Katsu's work before—now, the street artist has a new target for his satirical treatment.