Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #127

Dec 17, 2019

The very best

About decisions to create, tempo, and aliveness

About Audrey Tang, the digital minister of Taiwan, and her plea for “Data collaboration” through “radical transparency,” instead of centralized data control. An alternative to Silicon Valley...

When we see “internet of things,” let’s make it an internet of beings.

When we see “virtual reality,” let’s make it a shared reality.

When we see “machine learning,” let’s make it collaborative learning.

When we see “user experience,” let’s make it about human experience.

When we hear “the singularity is near,” let us remember: the plurality is here.

Ray Dalio's view on why capitalism is broken

This set of circumstances is unsustainable and certainly can no longer be pushed as it has been pushed since 2008. That is why I believe that the world is approaching a big paradigm shift.

About innovation that really feels different in a way that you know the presents is to be abandoned.

And you know this because the feel of the present feels different, like you’re heading down a dead-end, a lame-duck future. You’ll have to either abandon it as soon as you can, or end up dying with it.

Data and Society

Thanks to ubiquitous smartphones and cellular data, the internet has developed into a kind of supernatural layer set atop everyday life, an easily accessible realm of fearsome power, feverish visions, and apocalyptic spiritual battle.

Zeitgeist

Instead of a utopian future in which technological advancement casts a dazzling, emancipatory light on the world, we seem to be entering a new dark age.

Anna Wiener writes on Salesforce Park, San Francisco’s newest public space, which reflects the influence of Big Tech and Silicon Valley, and the city’s anxieties.

Innovation

Dare to listen to your own poetry and look with different eyes to the world. Do not flee from it, listen deeply within. We cannot know where it will lead us but we can imagine it by responding to its poetic call.

Future of work

China Envisions ‘Shared Factories’ in Achieving ‘Made in China 2025’

China’s industry regulator may be turning factories into a shared resource as it pursues advanced manufacturing goals in line with its controversial “Made in China 2025” industrial policy.

Niels recently gave a couple of interviews to Croatian media, ahead of the forthcoming COMELEON Conference, which will happen in Zagreb on 24 and 25 October 2019. The text below is an edited compilation of these interviews, during which he talked about "organizational excorcism", about the BetaCodex