Peter Vander Auwera - Issue #81

The very best

About a very disturbing trend of industrialised nightmare production and systematic and automated infrastructure violence. Highly recommended. But highly disturbing as well.

About fundamental rethinking car functionality: here the example of the steering wheel, why do we still have that?

About the irresponsible strategy of social media to consume as much of your time and attention, creating addiction and consciously not caring about the consequences.

About Otto Scharmer's U.Lab new initiative to create a movement to transform capitalism. 

About Ray Kurzweil rehashing the coming singularity, adding nation-state, longevity and human freedom. Be skeptical if you ask me.

About the critical influence of design on a person's wellbeing.

There are two distinctly different approaches to understanding human beings and the digital, social world. Mainstream thinking sees the digital as a platform or a community, on a different, (higher…

Data and Society

Zeitgeist

modern marketing, attention, economy, advertising, management, tools.

Innovation

@MarkBonchek.

A few days ago, my friend Ron, brought to my attention a concept from Jean de La Rochebrochard: the Narrative — Primitive — Enablers triad. In the excellent, and short, post mentioned above, La…

Future of work

Being "the first" or "the only" is unsuccessful. Here's why and how Elaine Welteroth, Editor-In-Chief of Teen Vogue made it work.

Employers are using a range of technologies to monitor their staff’s web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts and even private messaging apps

The central idea behind 'work' is not going to change; work is always solving other people's problems. What is changing are the problems and how we solve them.

In these disruptive times, many a CEO is tearing his (or her) hair out. With each passing day, the world becomes more complex and changes happen fast.…

Internet Culture

Join Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, as he contemplates his two obsessions: VR and music. “Musical instruments are the best user interfaces that have ever existed,” he says.

FinTech

In the fifth edition of the Citi GPS Disruptive Innovation series, we look at Blockchain in Commodities, The Rise of the Citizen Developer, CRISPR Gene Editing, Heat Not Burn Tobacco, Hyperloops, IoT Payments, Active Fund Pricing, Liquid Biopsy, and Unmanned Commercial Aircraft.

Ability to make payments to friends via social media is just the start

User mistakenly takes control of hundreds of wallets containing cryptocurrency Ether, destroying them in a panic while trying to give them back

Apple is soft-launching direct, person-to-person payments in an iMessage today with the Apple Pay Cash beta. The feature, which was announced earlier this..

London-based Revolut has applied for a European banking licence as it prepares to start offering deposit and credit services.

Does quantum computing pose an existential threat to blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Maybe, but not if we can develop a solution first.

A bitcoin transaction wastes as much electricity as it takes to power an American home for a week, and legendary coder Bram Cohen wants to fix that. Cohen has..

The Digital Maturity benchmark was designed to assess Belgian banks' maturity across 8 dimensions through a self-assessment survey and by one to one interviews with bank executives.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

https://youtu.be/SNbpSd6Mcs4 In my post titled "Welcome to the Outrage Economy," I talked about how marketing is being done today. Byond shows me, here, how media and marketing will be done in the future as we move to more augmented and virtual reality as its founder/CEO, Noam Levavi, gives me a preview of the future of media…

He’s the Silicon Valley visionary who gave us virtual reality. Now, in a new memoir-cum-manifesto, Jaron Lanier recounts his sad, unusual childhood and calls for a re-evaluation of our ties with the digital environment

Post Capitalism

“Trump is America’s wake-up call” I heard a visitor to the United States say the other day. True. Trump’s first year has been a wake-up call heard around...

Today, I’m thrilled to share that the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is on track to open as a new public markets option in 2018. What began as a wild idea seven years ago — transforming the public…

Art related

William Cook takes a look at the school that survived persecution again and again to influence the design of living today.

Other

Next Wednesday, 400 San Franciscans will wake up at 5:00am, put on their brightest spandex, and head to a science museum for a Space Jam-themed dance party. At 6am, there will be an hour-long cosmic yoga class and a sound-bath experience. After a quick organic-juice refreshment, two international DJs will spin electronic dance music—even though...

Promos

This is a well curated retrospective exhibition about the work of Christo. If you happen to be in Brussels between now and end Feb 2018, this is worth visiting. Impressed by the level of detailed preparation of these projects, and the novel financing model of Christo. Recommended.