Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #114

The very best

About Rushkoff's latest book "Team Human". A manifesto for humanity.

James Bridle about our relationship with the planet’s other alien consciousnesses

About executive sponsorship for building new capabilities. Another great post by @ribbonfarm

About the law of property and free-riding on other people's contributions. Great essay by Cory Doctorow

Excellent talk (video) by Jonathan Zittrain on corporate surveillance and influencing of human behaviour

As the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos spotlights a new era of greater global cooperation, a further evolution of the Fourth Industrial Rev...

In 1926 the last remaining wolves were killed in Yellowstone National park. The outcome of a centuries-long campaign to rid North America of its wolf population. Wolves were viewed as a nuisance…

Many companies equate new technology with innovation, but actual innovation means using tech alongside bureaucracy and challenging political choices.

Today’s episode is a special live celebration of the release of Team Human the book and manifesto, which is now available everywhere! On January 8th, Douglas was joined by acclaimed author Seth Godin…

Data and Society

Inside the great digital mis-engineering of the Toronto waterfront

Founded in 2014, Omni is a startup that offers users the ability to store and rent their lesser-used stuff in the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. Backed by roughly $40 million in venture…

The Facebook CEO's 3200 word paean to privacy is fraught with implications, not all of them necessarily intended. For all the words, this company is not yet devoted to privacy. Investors looking at all this might be inclined to sell.

The U-curve of happiness shows that people are happiest at the beginning and end of life, but less so in the middle. Midlife crises are the result of too much responsibility, and a sense that time is running out. That feeling lightens over time as people age. Happiness is a little reported benefit of growing older.

Zeitgeist

McAfee researchers watched, in real time, as the North Koreans attacked the networks of companies in the United States and around the globe.

Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture

The French president is asking European citizens to decide if progressive values "are to be more than just a passing episode in history."

Innovation

After half a decade of development, Sikorsky’s autonomous helicopter tech is ready for takeoff. It could help make everything from Black Hawks, to commercial helicopters, to planes easier to fly. And it just might make flying taxis possible, too.

FedEx Corp this summer plans to begin testing a robot to handle home deliveries for partners ranging from Walmart Inc to Pizza Hut.

The Innovation Excellence community is home to articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering growth in the innovation management profession.

Future of work

I’ve written a newsletter, called Exponential View for the past few years. EV, as we call it, is a curated newsletter, a combination of links constructed in a narrative and against a set of theses…

Over the past decades, we could witness the increase of structural complexity in corporates but also SME’s. The increasing need to integrate different views and underlying needs in management and…

Much of the narrative around the 4th industrial revolution has been about the threat posed by technology to livelihoods. A new report from Manpower Group explores whether robots really are taking our jobs based upon the evidence from the market to date

Learning in the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be different: mobile, participatory and available to millions.

Internet Culture

Google made almost all its money from ads. It was a booming business — until it wasn’t. Here’s how things looked right before the most spectacular crash the technology industry had ever seen.

FinTech

The financial technology industry keeps attracting new entrepreneurs and novel ideas—there are 20 companies on our fourth edition of the Fintech 50 that have never appeared on our list.

More than 40,000 customers around the globe were surveyed for their opinions on their current and former banking relationships to determine the best banks in 23 different countries. ING rates highly in eight countries.

FInd out how facial recognition technology can help with crypto wallets and blockchain in finance, as well as marketing initiatives and identity verification for loans.

Zuckerberg's digital coin planned for WhatsApp could revolutionize the global remittance industry.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

As we create A.I. that is many time more intelligent than we are, to ensure it remains on humanity's side, kindness while rearing it may be key.

"Not one of those myths has a good ending once the artificial beings are sent to Earth..."

Businesses are increasingly realising that their employees need to work alongside artificial intelligence to deliver the best results.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to completely transform the traditional retail experience and take it to the next level with personalization, automation and increased efficiency. Here are 20 of the best examples of AI to improve the retail experience happening in stores today.

When building A.I., we need to consider our own motivations and biases, and the social implications of the tools we create.

Artificial intelligence will profoundly change the health care industry. But there are many more questions around how AI can best serve our public health needs.

Do humans really only use 10 percent of their brains? According to top neuroscientist Moran Cerf, that's myth, but the human brain could be hacked into to foster superhuman abilities.

For better and for worse, robots will alter humans’ capacity for altruism, love, and friendship.

Digital Ethics

I am co-curating a dedicated Digital Ethics newsletter with Futurist Gerd Leonhard. Most Digital Ethics topics are there now. You can subscribe via this link. Below are some morsels that are not in this week DE-newsletter:

From a risk governance perspective, the great leap forward in gene-editing technology requires a dialogue between scientists, governments and the public.

"Everyone everywhere shares a common moral code. All agree that cooperating, promoting the common good, is the right thing to do."

Machines can now allegedly identify anger, fear, disgust and sadness. ‘Emotion detection’ has grown from a research project to a $20bn industry

Post Capitalism

Summary: Wealth isn't about taking something from somebody else—it's about creating abundance for the world. Everyone can be rich: if wealth were finite, we would still be sitting around in caves. In the first world, it's better to be poor today than it was to be the richest man 200 years ago. Thought experiment: if…

Art related

What makes painting a masterpiece? How does harmony matter to beauty? Perfect harmony in a composition is an algorithm. Sciencists reveal its workings.

An artificial-intelligence “artist” got a solo show at a Chelsea gallery. Will it reinvent art, or destroy it?

A computer-generated artwork is going to auction at Sotheby’s – but will AI art have staying power?

AI is like photography in the 19th century–struggling to be accepted as its own art form.

Digital art museum L’Atelier des Lumières brings Vincent van Gogh’s paintings to life, projecting them on the walls of a former foundry to the accompaniment of a poignant playlist

Aesthetics

the MVRDV tainan market is characterized by its expressive, terraced green roof over an open-air market, with a different crop on each terrace.

A new book examines the grand career of the Spanish architect

Other

Valentyn Odnvoium's series Surveillance creates beauty out of something very grim.