Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #106

The very best

About the continued integration between technology and humans, and a call for a “Digital Magna Carta”.

About the decline of nations, alliances of nations, and national institutions by George Dyson in the first Edge New Year's Essay.

About the surprising complementarity of money and speech (both data) in the context of financial regulations.

About the very personal curation the art show "Agency" by James Bridle, artist, journalist, technologist and author of New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

About the upcoming disruption of 5G. Great Techonomy interview with Verizon CEO Vestberg

True to the ' Day After Tomorrow philosophy, here are some longer term forward looking forecasts, that go beyond 2019: spaces and robots will become social…

Artificial intelligence isn't yet discerning enough to intervene in the bot war damaging our democracy

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

Multinational corporations are luring millennial workers with empty promises and self-serving slogans.

In an exclusive interview, Paola Antonelli discusses the end of humanity, the idea of design reparations, and her forthcoming exhibit “Broken Nature.”

The US has already lost this Trade War (Chinese Fintech)

The technologies of the future will be far too complex and interdependent for anyone to go it alone.

Holding forth on stuff since 1998

Holding forth on stuff since 1998

The jobs of the future don’t exist yet — but we know they’ll require some serious social skills.

On the 2nd December, 2018, I received the news that my dear friend Paul Sherwen a former professional racing cyclist and probably better known as one half of the Tour de France commentary team…

Data and Society

It sounds Orwellian, but many Chinese scientists are proud and relieved that such a system is finally in place, especially after the CRISPR baby scandal.

A righteous polemic depicting the likes of Amazon as part of a military conspiracy just doesn’t hold water

Last year was full of cybersecurity disasters, from the revelation of security flaws in billions of microchips to massive data breaches and attacks using malicious software that…

In this post, I make a case that Sovrin not only conforms to Kim Cameron's Seven Laws of Identity, but constitutes the identity metasystem he envisioned in 2004.

Of five phones, only one refused to open when presented with the fake head. Other biometric security measures have also shown less resilience to hacking.

The technology that deserves our vigilance before creepy creeps into dangerous.

New deep learning methods tested on video footage groups of animals could be a surveillance hit.

Zeitgeist

When people have burning questions, they increasingly turn to the internet for answers, but the diversity of sources for those answers is shrinking.

In 2013, I had the opportunity to discuss the future of education with Eric Schmidt, who was then the executive chairman of Google. I was keen to find ...

From sex to sugar to social media, people are in the grip of a wider range of compulsive behaviours. But what is driving them – and what can be done?

A shareholder lawsuit claims the directors of Google’s parent company approved a payout for Andy Rubin, who was accused of sexual harassment, in order to “keep the matter quiet.”

The logo will feature a blue cornflower, which Austrian Nazis used as a secret symbol when their party was banned in the country in 1933.

A look at key data shows that the world is much better off today than ever before in history.

Innovation

I’m a big fan of McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model of innovation. (if you’re not familiar with it there’s a brief description a few paragraphs down.) It’s one of the quickest ways to describe and prioritize innovation ideas in a large company or government agency. However, in the 21stcentury the Three Horizons model has a fatal flaw…

ON THE OUTSKIRTS of Cambridge, where city fades to field, the headquarters of Arm Holdings, a chip-design firm, is expanding apace. Its latest new building is long and flat, with a façade adorned with a pattern of metal triangles. These represent the nanometre-sized silicon fins found on the surface of modern transistors.

When we think about the impact of digital technologies on the modern business environment there’s a prevailing narrative now around disruptive new market entrants, and accelerating and exponential…

Keynote: ¿Qué se necesita para innovar? (En inglés) Speaker: Nektarios Liolios (Co-founder, Rainmaking Colab and Startupbootcamp FinTech) Más información en:

Some of the biggest names in retail are embracing innovation and forming new labs to seek out new opportunities to connect with consumers in a digital-dominated landscape.

At CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Nissan will unveil its future vision for a vehicle that helps drivers “see the invisible” by merging both real and virtual worlds, ...

Google’s Obi Felten: ‘You Can’t Cast Half the Population As Villains and the Other Half As Victims’. The tech executive on how she makes ‘moonshots’ a reality at X.

The Nreal Light are mixed reality glasses from a former Magic Leap employee. They allow you to see virtual objects in the real world, but they require a wired connection to a small, portable processing unit. The screen is excellent, but would you want to wear them? We try them on at CES 2019.

During the opening ceremony of Alibaba’s 2018 computing conference last week, Simon Hu, president of Alibaba Cloud, invited the MC to taste some tea on the stage — but, first, to distinguish between…

Brilliant strategy and high-tech wizardry will only get you so far. Innovation demands relentless execution driven by a radical can-do mindset.

Check out ten of Apigee's most popular customer videos from 2018

New Autonomous Farm Wants to Produce Food Without Human Workers. Down on a new robot farm, machines tend rows of leafy greens under the watch of software called “The Brain”.

Gary Hamel's powerful speech at the Global Peter Drucker Forum 2018 was oen of the highlights of the event. Here is what he was talking about.

Future of work

You'd think that, of all professionals, architects would really dig open plan. But you'd think wrong.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had a remarkably eventful 2018, buying Time, taking on Facebook and backing a measure to support the homeless.

Overcoming the simplistic opposition between “change” and “resistance to change” is I believe a service that change agents can do to their cause. Besides, change work comes with risks and responsibilities that are important to be aware of. Second part of my reflections on impact and culture change, inspired by the Berlin Change Days.

Internet Culture

If we feel overwhelmed by ‘stuff’, most of us believe physical clutter is the culprit. But researchers are finding that having too many digital files could be the problem, too.

FinTech

Ireland's central bank has granted authorisation for Google to operate as a payments institution, a move that could see the big tech giant significantly...

Open banking: the quiet digital revolution one year on

Banking trends and outlooks for 2019 from leaders and influencers in financial services, as well as financial institutions from around the world.

Bank/fintech partnerships will be a tough road to hoe in 2019 because of: 1) Digital account opening delusions; 2) Resource constraints; and 3) Lack of strategic partnership processes.

Will fintechs sink or swim when floats are regulated?

Money moves in an unbroken cycle and unless the entire cycle moves in tandem, it will break and your user centric design goes out the window.

Discover how facial recognition software is making its way into banking for applications such as security and making account withdrawls with one's face.

Opinion: It's time to restore the open source, community-led ethos of the original internet—with crypto.

Paper cash won't be king if the card networks are successful.

Since Bitcoin volumes began to dissipate in late-2018, which came alongside price plunges, the crypto's curious investors have sought to determine where

One miner reportedly controlled close to 60% of the cryptocurrency's hashpower, allowing unchecked block rewards and double-spending.

63 central banks were surveyed on the status their proposed CBDCs, to determine the likelihood of an incoming wave of digitized fiat.

RippleNet Surpasses 200 Customers Worldwide

Cryptonews.com is back with the weekly installment of memes, jokes and comics, and at least 2019 will be funny.

I am very excited to announce that I have been working on creating a new fintech investment firm, MiddleGame Ventures (MGV). 

N26's latest funding round was led by U.S. private equity firm Insight Venture Partners and backed by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC.

The New Year is here and we’re already checking off some of our goals for 2019.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Inside Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence.

As new regulations approach for artificial intelligence, tech companies are warning that AI restrictions could harm U.S. companies and help global competitors.

Inside the Chinese Lab That Plans to Rewire the World with AI. Alibaba is investing huge sums in AI research and resources — and it is building tools to challenge Google and Amazon.

Lovot’s new robot uses sensors and AI to become the perfect family pet.

Review Article

Generative adversarial networks are not just good for causing mischief. They can also show us how AI algorithms “think.”

Digital Ethics

Futurist Keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard announces new mission statement and 2019 speaking topics

We think of artificial intelligence as something that should better humanity, but user monitoring is an invasion of privacy. Facebook’s incessant experiments on us, whether with dating or blockchain…

Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto

Artificial intelligence technologies should be regulated, says AI Now Institute at NYU.

Attention C-Suite: If you make only one New Year’s resolution, make it this: use personal data intelligently, transparently and ethically.

Last year a string of controversies revealed a darker (and dumber) side to artificial intelligence.

Tech giants are working hard to assure us of their good intentions surrounding AI, but some of their public-relations campaigns create the surface illusion of positive change without the reality.

The American National Security community thinks Huawei is one of the greatest security risks in a world where American has declared China a strategic competitor. In an era of trade wars, a cold war…

The Disruptors is a podcast about the future of all of us where we look at the technologies, trends and societal norms like AI, automation, space exploration and life extension which will affect humanity's future.

A new report suggests that we expect big advances in software capabilities — and we’re nervous.

Neural networks are famously incomprehensible, so Been Kim is developing a “translator for humans.”

Post Capitalism

People say we’re about to enter the “Asian century.” That would be true if the world still did centuries. But it doesn’t; change driven by technological advancements now comes so rapidly and with…

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'flolony' is a changeable buoyancy floating housing unit, made up of a mobile naval architecture equipped with autonomous energy.