Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #80

The very best

About the current "television-internet" and a set of updated platform principles - start of a new cluetrain manifesto?

About the end of the Coase firm and the need to cultivate ecosystems. Sean Park, founder of Anthemis Group, checks the state of the financial services ecosystem and sees how it could be transformed for the Information Age.

About what happens if your work becomes machine unreadable. More and more, we create our work to be read by a machine. SEO specialists tell you how to write a blog post that Google will like. Your resumé needs to have the right keywords to get tagged. Everything has...

About real-real, fake-fake, fake-real and real-fake. Watch the first part of this session with Scott Smith (@Changeist). This is the HQ integral film from the Panel Discussion Speculative Realities during Impakt Festival 2017. 26-10-2017. Utrecht .The Netherlands. MODERATOR: Ni...

About handmade data visualisations without the framing of smartphones and AI. Data designer Giorgia Lupi talks us through her experience of painstakingly collected personal data.

It’s 500 years since Martin Luther defied the authority of the Catholic church. It’s time for a similar revolt against the hypocrisy of the religion of technology

Most people think of Bitcoin as a digital asset, but it can be thought of as something more general than that: a decentralized organization. Years from now, Satoshi’s creation may be looked at as a…

Once upon a time, we had products that were colorful, in shapes that were quirky, whimsical, and expressive. Interesting! And then, almost every tech product became white, silver, gray, black, flat…

Before it became a staple of videogames, the maze was a test of reason and courage, a way to find yourself by getting lost

Data and Society

Amazon is on the verge of winning a multibillion-dollar advantage over retail rivals by taking over large swaths of federal procurement.

Seven months ago, I sat down at the small table in the kitchen of my 1960s apartment, nestled on the top floor of a building in a vibrant central neighbourhood of Tehran, and I did something I had…

App developers will have access to data, thought they won't be able to sell any. But developers have violated Apple's rules before.

Zeitgeist

I guess this answers who will buy a $1,000+ phone. On our way to Sedona with my $800+ Google Pixel 2. Which I'm quite happy with, although it feels like a Toyota instead of a Porsche. That's OK, I'm a Toyota kinda guy (we own three of them). Oh, and I'm back to blogging. Dave…

Kevin Zhou is a tech journalist who translates tech developments between the US and China. He says the competition between the two has changed completely.

Innovation

Companies and government organizations are discovering that innovation activities without a defined innovation pipeline result in innovation theater.

Much has been written about Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and I have to say it was quite revolutionary when it has first proposed. For those who don’t know it, MVP is a principle that says we should build the minimum amount of product that allows us to get in front of customers and get feedback.…

Some people leave a deep impact on everyone they meet. Philosopher, programmer and investor Chris Dixon was one of those folks for me. The funny thing is, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know it. We met…

How to be Happy at Work & How to Motivate Employees

Apple’s new campus, Apple Park opened in April to both adulation and criticism. The Los Angeles Times’architecture critic, upon seeing the original design, called ita “retrograde cocoon.” USA Today…

The design industry’s reigning paradigm is in crisis. It’s time to evolve from human-centered design to humanity-centered design, write Artefact’s Rob Girling and Emilia Palaveeva.

Future of work

The use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is draining the scarce pool of talent worldwide. Digital Transformation will require new sources.

Internet Culture

About technology disconnecting from context and manufactured coincidences. 

The latest online records show e-commerce giant registered three blockchain and cryptocurrency related web domains.

FinTech

Singapore's DBS Bank claims to have launched the largest bank API developer platform in the world.

Don't miss what's right under your nose, which may be an engineer a mix of curiosity and talent, says Leda Glyptis. They are the key to your future.

CIBC Walks From Tapscott's NextBlock Global After Falsehoods Revealed; More Misrepresentations Found

A second wave of automation in banking will increase capacity and free employees to focus on higher-value projects. To capture the opportunity, banks must take a strategic, rather than tactical, approach.

It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees without a comprehensive view of what the proverbial forest looks like. As a result, here's a compiled a list of..

But that’s exactly what we’ll do here. Since we’re rapidly approaching the ten year anniversary of Bitcoin’s whitepaper publication, I’ll attempt to project out twenty years to see the evolution of…

A holochain application is run entirely by the people who use it. This enables direct communication, without the need for corporate web servers.

SINGAPORE — A total of 4,000 net jobs will be created annually till 2020 in the financial services and fintech sectors as part of the industry transformation map (ITM) for financial services which was launched on Monday (Oct 30). Three quarters of the new jobs will be added in the financial services sectors, and these cut across the areas of wealth management, insurance and IT, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said. The roles include those in investment advisory, risk modelling and artificial intelligence.

BNP Paribas is hoping to unlock the entrepreneurial talents of its staffers through a new programme that sees employees from around the world invited to...

We have been extremely busy over the last few months and it’s finally time to introduce the team and share our future vision with you. As many of you know, our original team started with over 200…

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Resisting Reduction Designing our Complex Future with Machines

Companies hope that pledging to handle their power responsibly will win points in Washington

Letters: Google’s role in university artificial intelligence courses alarms Sheila Hayman

This is more than just another industrial revolution—it is something that transcends humankind and even biology

What is a Capsule Network? What is a Capsule? Is CapsNet better than a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)? This article is about Hinton’s paper.

Machines seem to be getting smarter and smarter and much better at human jobs, yet true AI is utterly implausible. Why?

Looking at IBM’s Kubernetes-based private cloud, Geoff Hinton’s “capsule networks for AI, and MIT’s data science crowdsourcing platform.

Post Capitalism

The status quo is set by the stories we have been told for decades. To challenge it, we must tell stories of beautiful alternatives and amplify them.

Art related

About aesthetic experiences (in this case music): saturated in cultural expectations, personal memory and the need to move.

a mesmerizing trampoline performance called La mécanique de l’histoire (The mechanics of history)

Beatie Wolfe is an Anglo-American singer songwriter with a raw, acoustic, indie rock sound. Described by GQ as "smoky captivating melodies that envelop the listener" and by Monocle as "the sound of secrets whispered under bed cover," Wolfe's music pulls from the brooding poeticism of Leonard Cohen, the tender and haunting melodies of Elliott Smith and occasionally veers into Americana and grunge territory.

When seeking creative inspiration, where better to look than outside your window? The colours, textures, patterns and effects created by nature are un...

Completed in 2017 in Tianjin, China. Images by Ossip van Duivenbode. MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the Tianjin Binhai Library, a 33,700m2 cultural centre featuring a luminous...

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, born around 80 BC, served in the Roman army under Caesar and specialized in the design and construction of artillery machines. His duties took him to what are now Spain and…