This is a brain-frying review (long read) by Evgeny Morozov of Shoshana Zuboff's new book on “surveillance capitalism”. Take the time to read and let it sink in. It will be worth your time.
World-renowned security guru Bruce Schneier gives the arguments why cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why.
About everything that is wrong with management. Niels Pflaeging is a passionate advocate for a “new breed“ of leadership and profound change in organizations. He is a "Management Exorcist". Enjoy this great talk, very enjoyable and quite funny.
Tim O-Reilly lists pros and cons of Reid's "Blitzscaling" promises: it's not a recipe for success—it's survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.
Silence is an absence of vibration, detected by an ear. If there is no ear, there is no silence.
Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn’t just unusual — it was a first. I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse. Or at least that’s what the top people at the National…
These 5 tech trends are going to have a serious impact across industries in 2019. Learn how to prepare your business in the Tech Vision report.
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI).
If we look at technology over very long timescales, our definition of what it is transforms, and as Tom Chatfield argues, it also displays a form of evolution entwined with our own.
TV and film award season is upon us, and the chatter around science fiction and films and TV depicting near and far futures has never been more intense. If you’re into these topics, or more generally…
Today, with the launch of a new website and Twitter account, the #GoodID movement takes a leap forward in its goal to bring together diverse voices in the evolving field of digital identity. Since…
About half are in civilian hands.
Once Zuckerberg realised his creation was eating the world, he and his colleagues did what “bros” do, and embraced a mindset known as “growth hacking”, whereby what mattered was “increasing user count, time on site, and revenue”: unrestrained capitalism, in other words.
The social network says it intends to appeal against the German watchdog's ruling.
Do they want to scale them or stifle them?
The university wants to learn what ties its faculty members had to He Jiankui, the researcher who created gene-edited humans.
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
Okoni introduces the ‘Consultant-Maker’, connecting vision with execution!
Future thinking has often focused on a three-horizon framework that allows for the continued advancement of core business, while planning for emerging opportunities. I beleive the challenge these days is time compression associated with rapid advancement. When someone says to me: "I'm not worried about five years from now", my reaction is always the same.…
How new technologies and ancient remedies are transforming health care
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. “We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. “Valuations are out of control”…
The Manhattan flagship, the first of its kind in the U.S., is not only a shrine to sportswear but an homage to Nike’s unique design process—past and future.
The data on the company’s real-estate holdings reveal a remarkable inflection point.
‘Driven by a set of ideals and some clever code, you built a money machine that has accumulated remarkable influence’
The Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019
A look into the crypto part of Forbes’ fresh “Fintech 50” list
Mastercard today announced the appointment of Paul Stoddart as president, New Payment Platforms, effective March 1, 2019.
Six commercial UAE and Saudi Arabian banks have joined a digital currency project meant for cross-border interbank transactions.
"They’re all pushing us to get more money, but in reality we don’t need it. I’d rather achieve a certain size."
The Federal Reserve will lend a hand to Bangladesh's central bank as it sues to recoup losses from one of the world's largest cyber heists, even while the Philippine bank targeted by the lawsuit on Friday called it baseless and beyond U.S. jurisdiction.
Every time I look at Robinhood getting a new investor and most recently Acorns, it strikes me that a mass consumer wealth app isn’t the ‘next big thing’.…
From designing the first consumer mouse for Apple to helping incubate PillPack, IDEO has been at the forefront of bringing new ideas, innovations, and technologies to the mainstream through design…
Last year, with Bitcoin and its imitators soaring, attendees jammed discussions on blockchain technology. "I nearly lost my whole team to cryptocurrencies," said Will Andrich, the CEO of Switzerland’s Thaler.One, which says it creates real estate-backed digital securities. With the top 10
Facebook has made its first acquisition in the blockchain space. The social network has quietly hired the team behind Chainspace, a small blockchain startup founded by researchers from University College London, Cheddar has learned. Chainspace was building a decentralized “smart contracts” system that could facilitate payments and other services through blockchain technology.
In the late 1990s Google transformed the Web by creating a fast, accurate and easy-to-use search engine. Now it could do the same for blockchains, the technology underlying cryptocurrencies like ethereum.
Decentralization is the process of dispersing power away from a central authority. It has never been possible on a global scale—until now. But can it foster abundance without excess, multiplicity without superfluity, and complexity without chaos?
To prepare for a future where AI will likely disrupt entire industries, some say we’ll have to rethink how we educate future generations.
How to Lift the Veil Off Hidden Algorithms. In the absence of rules around algorithms, activists, lawyers, and tech workers are hacking transparency through other means.
About this Episode Episode 79 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Naveen Rao discussing intelligence, the mind, consciousness, AI, and…
AI has been called the process of automating the ineffable i.e. creating technology that can digitize those things that we humans find too great or too extreme to be expressed or described in words, so does accepting this fundamental truth help explain what contemporary AI is and what it can do?
The Verge interviews Terrence Sejnowski, a pioneer in the study of learning algorithms and author of The Deep Learning Revolution (out next week from MIT Press). He argues that the hype about killer AI or robots making us obsolete ignores exciting possibilities happening in the fields of computer science and neuroscience, and what can happen when artificial intelligence meets human intelligence.
I am super excited to let you know I have joined Gerd Leonhard's The Futures Agency as a speaker and as a part-time researcher and curator. I am helping Gerd with the curation of a new newsletter on #DigitalEthics, related blog posts and a podcast.
To avoid duplication, you will find now Digital Ethics related delicacies in Gerd newsletter. You can also drink from the firehose: here is a link to Gerds Tumblr Feed and here is link to my Tumblr Feed. You see, we're just getting started ;-)
Digital Ethics by Futurist Gerd Leonhard and co-curated by Petervan. You can subscribe via this link.
In this video, American technology consultant Jerry Michalski shares his thoughts on 'abundance' in the face of artificial scarcity.
Now you can look inside the mind of a genius thanks to the British Library's digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci's notebook, "The Codex Arundel."
An A.I. portrait just sold for $432,000 at Christie’s. But no algorithm can be ascribed artistic talent, and it’s a mistake to believe otherwise.
The neuroscientist was in the art gallery and there were many things to learn. So Eric Kandel excitedly guided me through the bright…
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