Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #133

The very best

A fantastic well research set of premonitions on Culture, Brands, Space, Entertainment, Tools, Politics, Death. Very good, tout court.

From attention economy to intention economy. Doc Searls - one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto - condenses his thinking of a lifetime.

When a fashion show becomes a beautiful choreography

"My paintings are invitations to look somewhere else"

https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/robert-rauschenberg-erasing-rules/

I love this 90 min course on Design Unbound and Pragmatic Imagination by Ann Pendleton-Jullian. The sort of videos that want me to go back to school.

Over the recent weeks, I had my group of 19 non-French students draw the blueprint of the kind of media that will thrive in the post-COVID-19 era. Here are some trends and propositions that emerged…

What you can see in photographs of nothing

*Gaslighting, if you don’t know the word, is defined as: manipulation into doubting your own sanity. As in, Carl made Mary think she was crazy, even though she clearly caught him cheating. He gaslit…

Data and Society

The role of the digital revolutionaries is to disrupt everything but the central institution of modern life: the market, argues Guardian US columnist Evgeny Morozov

magine documenting each time you smiled at a stranger, opened the door for a stranger or checked the time because you’re worried you’ll be late? At first gla...

We were naive to think that digital technology would be intrinsically and inevitably more empowering than any medium that came before it. Yes, digital networks are more directionless and…

The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist has been attacked with falsehoods that he created the coronavirus and wants to profit from it.

A group of European privacy experts has proposed a decentralized system for Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contacts tracing which they argue offers greater protection against abuse and misuse of people’s data than apps which pull data into centralized pots. The protocol — which they’re calling Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-PPT) — has been designed by around 25 […]

Zeitgeist

There is a certain beauty in the expanses of public space, now vacant amid the pandemic, these photos from around the world show. There is also a reminder: True beauty comes when the builders roam the built.

Covid-19 is transforming life across the globe. While this moment of crisis will be over, there is no going back to normality. From Covid-crisis, we will move into a Post-Covid world, shaped by new beliefs, values and behaviour.

Go to https://cognitive-edge.com/videos/complexity-chaos-covid-19/

An interview with knowledge management expert, chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge and father of the Cynefin framework, Dave Snowden, about coping…

Innovation

The ExO World Summit, a three-day virtual conference attended by over 2,000 people, focused on the future of healthcare, computing, government, transportation, energy and work. The Innovator takes…

The film composer Hans Zimmer is creating a sonic signature for BMW’s forthcoming electric i4 sedan.

Future of work

It’s crucial for creating new opportunities and finding new ways to grow.

Internet Culture

Robert Scoble reflects on what it takes to bring analogue conferences into the online world.

FinTech

Remember Libra, Facebook’s plan to create a global digital currency? Unveiled last June, it was immediately met with resistance from policymakers and central bankers around the world. So the team went back to the drawing board, and today it reemerged with a new vision—one that is a lot less audacious than the original. 

AI, Robots, Algorythms

As these systems continue to evolve and expand, so does the impact on our lives.

Digital Ethics

The pandemic is putting profound philosophical questions to the test.

A philosopher explains how feelings influence right and wrong.

Post Capitalism

Three weeks ago, I posted some reflections on what we are learning from corona and climate action. Given that post’s wide circulation (150K+ views), I wanted to share a quick update. The concluding…

This is a good time to question the game we all have been playing. It’s a fine game, but there are better games and we should create them together. This is a...

Weird (Cyber)Space

I went in search of outsiders who were thriving in communities where acceptance is hard to come by. It turns out, we might all learn from their approach to life.

The 60 Starlink satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX firm appear in a line crossing the night sky.

Art related

Kris Martin's works often raise questions about transience, identity, life and death.

From the playground game ring-around-the-rosy to the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the scars of illnesses throughout history are still visible today.

Helpful links for all you creative people working from home and/or looking for work, grants, resources, and trying to stay healthy doing it. I will be adding to this list so if you come across something please email me about it.

Aesthetics

The Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo is known for his dazzling experimental shorts, which craft otherworldly art from urban landscapes. In 0107 – b moll he uses nighttime images of Tokyo trains to explore some of the contrasts – physical togetherness and emotional solitude, natural darkness and artificial light – that often characterise city life.

Aahhhh! Spanish design and architecture: jawdropping!

The way we construct things and how we use digital information to build buildings today is undergoing a dramatic change. AR and AI will be playing a key role...

Tight floor plans, “sanity” walks, and the people you miss seeing: They turned up in your homemade maps of life during the coronavirus pandemic.

Ji Lee critically deconstructs and engages with the world around him, exploring foundations of analysis in seeing, meaning and representation. So refreshing.

Music/Sound

Very well done animation of multiple players in Zoom. Creative!

For real nerds

This is a think piece for smart people who already know that what happened isn’t what actually happened.

Backdrops for your online conferences. Whether using back

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