Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #75

The very best

About a scientific approach to change as opposed to change theories. It is currently impossible to guide the evolution of entire societies. Yet this is exactly what humanity needs the ability to do in these turbulent and dangerous times. The litany of threats is well…

About what everybody seems to deny (fraud) when talking cryptocurrencies

About the bond between agency and mutual accountability. I’m trying to concentrate on writing this piece, but my two grandchildren in the room next door have stopped making paper aeroplanes and started arguing. ‘You kicked me,’ yells Freya. Her brother Ben insists it was an accident. ‘I didn’t mean to,’...

About us wanting to take back control of tech. To everyone who shapes technology today. The Copenhagen Letter 2017

About the Snapchat generation. This is more about culture than fintech > great

About all/many of us becoming cogs in a network of robots. I have written about this also here: https://petervan.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/cogs-in-networks/ The triumph of ‘digital Taylorism’ means that many jobs in the modern economy have been sapped of their humanity, write professors Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger

About decentralised identity powered by distributed ledgers

About Elon Musk (one of the better articles)

About protecting your time.

rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017 - RWOT5 in Boston, Massachusetts

Building confidence in system behavior through experiments

The world is getting to be pretty f*cked up now and something needs to be done about it. Humanity is heading toward a future that nobody wants because the cultural systems we are living within have…

A Lonely Binge I recently read three books on the topic of solitude. Two were actually titled Solitude, while the third, and most recently published, was

Data and Society

BMW has decided to adopt Alexa as the voice assistant in BMW cars and selected Mini cars starting in 2018. So drivers will be able to drive and talk to Alexa, getting answers in spoken form from the assistant. But Alexa will also deliver graphics like weather into the head unit display in the car, … Continue reading “BMW will add Amazon’s Alexa into new cars in 2018”

Technological progress has radically transformed our concept of privacy. Will privacy survive the future as government regulations try to keep pace?

Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, discusses what consumers can do to protect themselves from government and corporate surveillance.

Zeitgeist

https://youtu.be/zqE-ultsWt0

A Chinese team corrected the potentially fatal blood disorder beta-thalassemia.

The president’s latest comments shouldn’t be surprising—but his deliberate inflammation of tense situations is no less stunning.

Innovation

The Constrained organisation, by contrast, talks of innovation, but trades in Constraint

Corning’s Silicon Valley technology chief shares how to stay creative over the long haul, drawing on 40 years of experience.

Toys 'R' Us heeft bescherming tegen zijn schuldeisers aangevraagd. De legendarische Amerikaanse speelgoedketen was een dinosaurus en iedereen weet toch dat die uitgestorven zijn? Maar niet alle grote en 'oude' bedrijven zijn met uitsterven bedreigd. Ik heb het tegenovergestelde zien gebeuren, en het was echt magisch.

British inventor, whose company has been working on vehicle since 2015, says it will launch in 2020

Future of work

Managers, are your teams mired in chaos? Learn the new, research-based practices used by managers who are masters at navigating complexity and disruption.

Treating people-related costs as the investments they are will finally unlock HR’s promised evolution.

Anyone who has been to a corporate retreat knows how they inspire both pride and anxiety,  how they can feel like both a burden and a privilege. Afterall, it’s typically only a company’s highest-level employees who get invited to attend an all-expenses-paid trip away from the office, usually to a far more scenic location. In...

Innovation will do more good than harm, says Ray Kurzweil. He also delves into job automation loss and AI.

Posted by John Hagel III and Jeff Schwartz on September 27, 2017. In a recent issue of Deloitte Review, John Hagel, Jeff Schwartz, and Josh Bersin suggest a framework for understanding the future of work and its implications for individuals, organizations, and governments. HR Times caught up with John and Jeff to hear more about…

The fundamental dynamic of evolution is not competitive selection, but interactive cooperation

Internet Culture

FinTech

They're looking to hire techies to build out a number of new initiatives.

A leading UK financial technology company has strengthened its position in the market with the appointment of new chairperson, Lazaro Campos, and chief...

Ripple is the fourth most valuable cryptocurrency, and it has a lot of variation from Bitcoin, Ether, and Bitcoin Cash above it. Ripple has shown how it can dis

JP Morgan chief claims BitCoin is a "fraud" reserved for criminals. He would know. JP defrauded its customers for decades without need for a crypto-currency

Last week I wrote about Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future, a recently published book by MIT’s Andy McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson. The book is organized into three main sections: Mind and Machine, Product and Platform, and Core and...

It looks like Google has finally jumped on the Bitcoin bandwagon. In a new update to its popular Payments Request API, the tech titan added the ability to

AI, Robots, Algorythms

A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn.

While attending the Gateway '17 Conference earlier this month, Alibaba founder Jack Ma sat down with CNBC's David Faber about artificial intelligence and employment. He is optimistic, but suggests that the next 30 years are going to be a time of great change.

[liveblog] Google AI Conference

And the machines are running the asylum.

Massive research by Goldan Sachs on China's future in AI (PDF)

Post Capitalism

There's a school of thought that argues that markets are the solution to everything. That money is the best indication of value created. That generating maximum value for shareholders is the only job. That the invisible hand of the market...

Art related

We start of this new series with a video of Dirk Braeckman's exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale. In his enigmatic photographs ...

Axel Vervoordt, Daniella Ferretti and Davide Daninos talk about Intuition. May 13 – November 26, 2017 Palazzo Fortuny, Venice “Together with Director Daniela...

Aoi Yamaguchi performs a conceptual and interactive large-scale live calligraphy in collaboration with Berlin-based musician Schneider TM and e-Textile artist Mika Satomi, inspired by the TYPO Berlin 2017’s theme “Wanderlust”....

Dries Van Noten Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear collection, runway looks, beauty, models, and reviews.

From book critiques to music choices, computation is changing aesthetics. Does increasingly average perfection lie ahead?

A new app, Smartify, allows you to point your phone at artworks and instantly know everything about them. But while facts can enrich enjoyment, it is the shock of the unknown that really makes art resonate

japanese floral artist, azuma makoto, presents two experiments on decomposition at the ‘oi futuro’ museum in rio de janeiro, brazil.

Residents can take in art galleries and chamber music concerts in the veritable village

Other

This statement. “30 Jokes Only Programmers Will Get” is published by Pavel Malos in Hacker Noon

SO HANDY! If you're here for the first time: hi. I like your shirt. I bet your shirt would like me too if it just got to meet me. Wait did we get off to a we...

This piece provides the reader the five best technology articles today. These focus on artificial intelligence; the ethics of AI; self-flying cars; AI as the new electricity; and Ray Kurzweil's thoughts on AI and the economy.