Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #77

The very best

About "virtue signaling", hypocrisy and the erosion of trust. The more sheltered and fragmented American communities become, the harder we find it to trust that other people hold real convictions.

About the scientific study of cultural evolution. What does the ecological crisis have in common with global poverty? How does politics relate to economics? The study of history? The changing landscape of technology, arts, and culture? Why is there…

About the power of trust in today's relationship economy

About beauty as an experience of proportion and harmony. 

We are now one third of the way through the fall edition of Fritjof Capra's Capra Course and we have come to the lecture on Mind and Consciousness. In this lecture Fritjof discusses "one of the most important and most radical philosophical implications of the new systemic understanding of life: a new conception of the…

About the depressing gig economy and what's next: Crowdtap.

In the previous four chapters of this series, I discussed the different concepts, approaches, and tools for activating systems thinking. Now it’s time to start pulling those parts together. In this…

Data and Society

Social media was designed to bring us together. Instead, it’s tearing us apart.

Editor's note: This story inadvertently went off reporting from a Wired.com article published in 2011. The story, as published by The Hill, incorrectly stated that the military had detected the virus two weeks

What’s up for grabs is your mind.

Zeitgeist

The Chinese artist unveils a film and artworks that challenge us to shelter millions of people fleeing the violent collapse of their homelands.

Innovation

How the secretive Silicon Valley lab is trying to resurrect the lost art of invention

Future of work

A new kind of shared living entity — the Podshare — has been popping up in Los Angeles, California, this year. "The idea is like a coffee shop or your neighborhood bar, but for beds," says founder Elvina Beck. There are now five Podshare locations in the L.A. area.

Internet Culture

Earlier this year, video emerged of a new iPhone feature, long before it was released. It showed the phone creating a magical portal in the middle of a city street. And now that’s arrived. Apple’s new technology, named ARKit, seemed to arrive at the perfect time. It works by imposing bright virtual objects into the real world – at a time when reality has never seemed darker.

FinTech

Today, Ripple announced the RippleNet Accelerator program -- the first program to make $300 million of XRP available to eligible customers.

Google, Amazon, Paytm, and others are in a bare-knuckled fight to win India's next billion financial services consumers. These companies are launching apps and digital wallets, as well as creating partnerships and walled gardens to hurt competing products.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top e-commerce firm, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd [BABA.N], is launching a $15 billion (£13.43 billion) drive to build overseas research hubs

The first blockchain to solve challenges in scalability, speed, and flexibility may become dominant. Which blockchain is best positioned to win the race?

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make ICOs really solid, ethical, lasting sources of good. However, at the heart of an ICO is the “C” — the cryptocurrency which is being offered. How can we…

Blockchain company Ripple says it has $15bn war chest

Early results from a blockchain proof-of-concept conducted by Swift with six of the co-operative's member banks indicate that DLT application can delive...

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Post Capitalism

Art related

Walter Isaacson’s biography portrays a man obsessed with knowledge and almost impossible to know.

Made up of connecting nodes, the museum space can change and adapt to suit the needs of the community.

BMW open work opens with olivia erlanger's adaptive 'body electric' exhibit, which explores the changing relationship between humans and their environment.

Artists and couturiers have had an uneasy relationship – yet art continues to be seen on the catwalks, writes Kelly Grovier.