About engaging in music, literature and the arts being essential for understanding context and human behaviour.
About the balance between design and recipes. Strong metaphor for organisational and technology design. One day, I’d like to design a truly modern, functional city with the character of a medieval hill town. Rather than a blueprint, I’d like to design a series of recipes for how to create it, from the…
About the state of photoreal CGI (Computer Generated Images) Written and animated by Alan Warburton with the support of Tom Pounder and Wieden + Kennedy
About your net(work)-worth.
About the design of technology for Blade Runner 2049 (contains spoilers)
About community 3.0 and resource maximisation.
Life emerges from death. This is merely a fact from ecology — where the seemingly immortal flow of nutrients continuously passes from the bodies of the recently deceased into new forms as it is…
As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.
Lots of people are still mistaking audiences with communities at the risk of adopting wrong approaches or being wrong about the nature of the relationship.
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents
Russia and China see a new way to completely control their financial systems.
This new touch screen is a step toward futuristic “living materials” with the power to change, heal, or remodel into entirely new circuits on demand.
‘Lastige’ mensen, mooie vragen en Multiplicity: hoe pioniers hun innovatiecultuur aanpakken
Which companies will be able to grow over the long term? The Fortune Future index, based on innovative analytics, helps answer that question.
If you’re looking across the workings of an organisation and thinking about the amount of money being spent on digital transformation, there’s a new means of analysis and a potent metric to add to…
When done well, your work becomes art. That's probably the only sign of success that personally excites me. Fame? Money? Likes? Shares? Follows? When the work that you're doing is, literally, considered art, it truly transcends. This is one of...
Why employee engagement doesn’t make sense any more
Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella are archetypes of a kinder, gentler leader in tech.
The Digital Life Collective launches officially today. Our co-operative is marking the event with a new website at www.diglife.com. If you consider technological products and services to be integral…
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ING has become the latest bank to launch a fintech venture fund, earmarking EUR300 million for investments in promising startups.
Do you know all the places you’ve stored your payment card details?
To make themselves invaluable to consumers of the future, PayPal has unveiled the very aptly named PayPal for Marketplaces, which they are billing as an “end-to-end global payment solution.” The new payment system lets consumers use PayPal’s entire suite of services–including risk-and-fraud detection capabilities and online buyer and seller protection–or pick and choose from the … Continue reading “PayPal has seen the future, and the future is marketplaces”
To create a web of money, you need two way links so that the numbers add up when money moves from one place to another. This is the fundamental UX concept underlying cryptocurrency protocols. In a…
“When would we know our financial system is working?” is the question underlying Long Finance’s goal to improve society’s understanding and use of finance over the long-term. The Long Finance initiative offers an innovative approach to long-term financial thinking. In contrast to the short-termism that defines today’s economic views the Long Finance time-frame is roughly 100 years.
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‘Wolf of Wall Street’ warns ICOs are ‘biggest scam ever’
Banks around the world have spent the past few years preparing for competition from small, nimble technology startups. It turns out the real threat may be Jeff Bezos, according to McKinsey & Co. In its annual banking report.
Global banking-industry performance has been lackluster. Now comes the hard part: the rise of nonbanking platform companies targeting the most profitable parts of the banking value chain.
A list of ways the future will feel normal
At the borderline of technology and biology, ‘bodyhacking’ pioneers are defying nature to redesign their own bodies. Is this really the future?
The term “AI” is thrown around casually every day. You hear aspiring developers saying they want to learn AI. You also hear executives saying they want to implement AI in their services. But quite…
Microsoft opens a hi-tech studio dedicated to creating mixed reality content.
We have a moral obligation to start talking about our future and the role of technology in it. We are more than just intelligence and data
For decades, the Belgian designer has created sumptuous fashion for thinking women. In an age of tattered luxury, he has also come to stand for independence.
"Digital Vegetables" is a touch-activated digital greenhouse in Tokyo that is part of an art exhibition.
Science shows us that your brain can only focus for 90 to 120 minutes at a time.
I am thrilled to be invited as closing keynote at the FinnoSummit 2017 in Miami on 9 Nov 2017. My talk/performance will be about "deep" change in organisations, and is a sneak pre-view of my performance "Tin Drum Is Back". This closing keynote includes self-created art, soundscapes and poems.
