Already published in 2016, this essay by Neri Oxman proposes a map for four domains of creative exploration—Science, Engineering, Design and Art
About the fifth Design in Tech Report by John Maeda from Automattic (the company behind Wordpress).
Fantastic animation in support of fantastic meditation on the open web by Alexis Lloyd, Head of Design Innovation at Automattic
A very promising video series by Tellart. The first videos have Kavin Slavin from MIT Media Lab. Absolute brain-candy.
Designers need to change the model of leadership to create a more a diverse and critical industry, says designer Nelly Ben Hayoun. Design by subversion: loving it!
NYU professor Amy Webb believes the future of privacy is currently taking shape–and there’s a real chance of a truly catastrophic outcome.
Should Facebook be considered an “information fiduciary” when it comes to the privacy of its clients? How should we weigh the pros and cons of encryption sch...
This is not an easy essay to write, because I have believed that technology companies are a force for good for more than 30 years. And for the past ten years, I’ve been an unabashed optimist when it…
When you look back at the history of WordPress, what distinguished WordPress was an emphasis on design. As the years passed, the definition of design changed...
The internet itself is a changing context—we’re right to worry about data flows, but we also have to worry about the context changing even when data doesn’t flow.
Working out where one hare ends and another begins is easy; a siphonophore, not so much. What is an individual in nature?
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
Transformations in design practice between the Dotcom Crash and the rise of machine intelligence © 2019 TELLART Follow Tellart on: http://instagram.com/tella...
Concept by Adam Becker and Brie Anne DemkiwImages by Marly GallardoText by Ian Stewart We call our design process "deep design" per a talk I gave at WordCamp Europe in 2018. It emerged from the realization that by being so technology-focused, we spent a disproportionate time on Planet Deliver. So we needed to consider the…
Rather than simply designing products that drive revenue, let’s use the science of friction to maximize the value a product can offer humanity.
Facebook is making a new and stronger commitment to privacy. Last month, the company hired three of its most vociferous critics and installed them in senior technical positions. And on Wednesday…
I’ll never forget a meal I had with a senior executive at Facebook many years ago, back when I was just starting to question the motives of the burgeoning startup’s ambition. I asked whether the…
Roger McNamee explains how data tracking in Silicon Valley operates and is sold in increasingly intrusive and unethical ways. Google's CAPTCHA feature trains their self-driving car AI. Your mouse movements are tracked. Your credit card information is used to sell you ads. Behavioral prediction influences your life. It's time for regulation.
The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately.
An app called Citizen promises “awareness” of nearby danger. What it provides is more complicated.
how data trusts, collaboratives and coops can help govern data for the maximum public benefit
» “Dear Tech Company”: A nice counter-narrative to IBM’s promotional video - On 12 Feb 2019, IBM published a new video advertisement “Dear Tech, An Open Letter to the Industry” asking what kind of tech company does the world need today? IBM's answer: a company that applies smart technologies at scale with purpose and expertise—not just for some of...
We are proud to present this year's cohort of Young Global Leaders. Among them are heads of state, artists, business leaders and entrepreneurs, all of whom are pushing boundaries and all of whom possess the ability to foster the new leadership our future requires.
“What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic.”
Networked drones will circle layered airways, all operated using AI city brains and blockchain-based data infrastructures.
The most important variables are structural, not cultural.
It’s more Venus fly trap than hand.
As technology becomes more widely available to people around the world and its influence grows, what are the biggest risks we should be monitoring?
How to mobilize a whole organization? A real story.
As some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent start-ups prepare to go public, networks of their former employees are expected to plow big sums of money into a new generation of firms.
To achieve your aggressive growth goals in the face of uncertainty and change, you need to follow a new set of rules that fly in the face of what is taught in business schools.
Mapping the complex forces that are reshaping organizations and changing the employee/employer relationship.
Business leaders are already taking on some of the role traditionally played by government, in part because of greater agility in adapting to change.
Walmart US CEO Greg Foran stood on a stage at a company holiday meeting five years ago and asked thousands of workers to email him.
The concept of “family” makes conversations much harder.
Today, 30 years on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how…
How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class
Twitter wants to limit snark and get "healthy." So far, it’s gone nowhere.
Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday that Facebook would be ‘pivoting to privacy’. That’s an empty pledge
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing industries of all stripes - but, curiously, financial services has been slow on the uptake. Here's why - and how - that should change
As the blockchain sector evolves, it’s important for policy makers and industry to co-create standards to make multi-layered, interoperable chains a reality.
“You have zero privacy,” Scott McNealy, CEO of then-mighty Sun Microsystems famously said back in 1999, “Get over it.” His words have echoed through the subsequent two decades, too often seeming prescient. Now a fatalism has set in among consumers about what companies know about us and how much data is escaping our control.
Barclays sees as much as a $19 billion upside for Facebook if its secretive cryptocurrency plan works out.
A key question is whether the company will pursue Western consumers, and not just Chinese tourists.
As some thought leaders advocate for the recognition of access to AI as a human right, the question comes up: How could we achieve that?
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An ideal transistor for the brain should be built from biocompatible and stable materials, and should be soft and flexible to avoid mechanical mismatches.
From our wake-up time to our vacation hotel bookings, algorithms are increasingly determining the choices we make throughout our lives. Who’s really in the driver’s seat?
Last December Synced compiled its first “Artificial Intelligence Failures” recap of AI gaffes from the previous year. AI has achieved remarkable progress, and many scientists dream of creating the…
I am co-curating a dedicated Digital Ethics newsletter with Futurist Gerd Leonhard. Most Digital Ethics topics are there now. Starting with next week's edition, the Digital Ethics newsletter will be renamed 'Humanity Futures' and will be merged with Gerd's existing newsletter at www.gerd.digital. Watch that space! Below are some morsels that are not in this week Digital Ethics newsletter:
Let people look inside the black box of the algorithm, and their mistrust, hostility, and fear will gradually melt away. Right? Well, kinda.
Deep Mind’s study published last week in Nature Medicine, presenting their Artificial Intelligence (AI) product capable of diagnosing 50 ophthalmic conditions from 3D retinal OCT scans. Its…
Ever since Paul Mason’s treatment of post capitalism in his acclaimed book, Post Capitalism: A Guide to Our Future, there have been musings about the possibility we may be moving into a different…
My bed a raft, the room the sea and then I laughed some gloom in me, a monochrome sculpture by Hans Op de Beeck, visually imagines a young girl's dream.
Sentient dairy products, werewolf soldiers, robots gone wild, garbage monsters, cyborg bounty hunters, alien spiders and blood-thirsty demons from hell - all...
AI remixes, DNA archiving, AR concerts. It’s been 20 years since Mezzanine and Massive Attack’s experiment is still running
I have lots of little tasks I should do and I think of them in the morning and feel filled with ennui and despair. Paperwork, plans, maintenance. It's always
