About the pros and cons of the hot mess approach to information management (search vs. folders). By L.M. Sacasas
Freedom is not a goal, but a direction. The vaccine against monoculture is tolerance. By Edward Snowden
About reversing the future cone. With this forecast, we’re asking instead “how do we get to what we want?” By Jamais Caisco
An emoji flipbook presentation by Alex Komoroske about how dysfunctional organizational dynamics arise even when individuals are well-behaved. Alex is Head of Corporate Strategy at Stripe.
About the dependency of the virtual world on the physical world. Fantastic critique on the x-verses. By Christopher Butler
Why is the metaverse different from virtual worlds? Because of NFTs.
Throughout history, the industrialization of technology has led to new practices and behaviours within organizations. What matters in competition is...
Site: https://resiliencetech.reportThe #ResilienceTech Report builds on two past report series that correctly predicted three industry directions that were e...
A technological sublime for the Anthropocene
Musings on whether a virtual reality or a computer generated reality could ever match our real reality. I wrote my first version of this essay in 2008, while in Pinedale, Wyoming, visiting my…
[You’re reading a post from my Adjacent Possible newsletter. Sign up to receive more essays and conversations like this one in your inbox.] Last week I happened upon an entertaining and provocative…
And that's true for the future of money as well as the future of everything else.
Joseph Tainter's model of collapse offers a way to analyze the present
Early October 2021 I was invited to give a talk at EPFL Lausanne in the context of the new Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design (co-organised by EPFL ENAC-HRC and ETH Zürich…
Strelka Mag — Exploring new urban conditions. The online magazine of Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.
Six months into my freshman year at Syracuse University, I knew I was in trouble. Upstate New York, in the dead of winter, provided its own set of challenges, but living in an 'all guys' dorm where partying was the norm, only exasperated my concern. Don't get me wrong, it was a trip, but was it the one...
I was invited to give comment (along with Ever Bussey, Jasmine McNealy, and Trevor Owens) on Shannon Mattern’s new book, A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences, at the book launch on…
By the time he died, in 1940 at the age of 60, Paul Klee was one of the most famous artists of his generation. He had worked at the Bauhaus and could count such luminaries as Wassily Kandinsky and…
VUCA does not suffice to account for the "chaos of today". A new acronym is much better suited for this: Here is why the BANI framework should replace VUCA.
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Imagine listening to a conversation on sovereignty where no-one has any maps and therefore no-one can discuss borders but everyone wants to talk about the importance of mountains or hills or lakes or…
The Good ID approach involves following a framework of practices to design ID programs and policies that empower people to freely and safely engage with the digital world.
Modern college students aren’t organizing their files into folders and directories, forcing some professors to rethink the way they teach programming.
Since 2016, a growing number of digital identity experts have worked together to create privacy preserving, digitally native, trusted credentials, which enable the secure sharing of data from…
Proving you are who you are will get personal in 2021, thanks to data servers
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
Backing breakthrough scientific inventions transforming billions of lives
Utilizing drone reforestation technology, Flash Forest is changing the way companies plant trees in areas that were damaged by forest fires or previously har...
Researchers create an optical ‘transistor’ with incredible computational power. This extremely energy-efficient optical switch can replace electronic transistors in the next-gen computers.
This is a reprint of my email newsletter. Subscribe here. Human storytelling is about to become MUCH richer. I’ve been spending the summer understanding the technology changes coming to consumers soon. Lots of people at lots of companies, from car companies, to audio companies, have told me what is coming. Which made me realize that…
Blue Origin and Sierra Space have announced plans for Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbi...
This twitter thread explores the journey from the original Mac to today’s M1 Pro-based MacBook and the history behind such a mind-blowing innovation. Apple’s M1 Pro/Max is the second step in a major…
Tesla will soon build the fastest AI supercomputer in the world; Dojo.
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused a rapid shift to full-time remote work for many information workers. Viewing this shift as a natural experiment in which some workers were already working remotely before the pandemic enables us to separate the effects of firm-wide remote work from other pandemic-related confounding factors.
Metcalfe’s Law persists today in discussions of network effects, yet it is not enough for those in the industry who seek to create, scale, and compete using this powerful force -- the product managers, engineers, designers, and executives who need to map a strategy around network effects into their upcoming quarterly roadmaps.
Good afternoon! I’m honored to be here today, speaking with you, in no small part because you have given me the opportunity to try to connect disparate parts of my career together into a coherent…
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The real fintech revolution is more radical than you think.
On how the transition in financial services from analog to digital; productized to embedded; and centralized to decentralized constitutes a complete revolution
The central banks of China, Hong Kong, Thailand and UAE shared progress on the M-CBDC Bridge project for cross border payments
Klarna is launching a browser extension, enabling shoppers to buy now, pay later from their desktops at every online store.
..... Or when an apparently big move might herald a much bigger manoeuvre. ICYMI … Amazon has announced it will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK in early 2022 citing the hefty costs to merchants. These so-called interchange fees were capped at 0.3% for credit cards and 0.2% for debit cards under EU regulation, but following Brexit Visa (and Mastercard) took the opportunity to put the fees back up to @1.5% for credit and 1.15% for debit. Those of you that, like us, have been in payments
With over 150 investments in fintech across the globe, Anthemis continues to be one of the most active fintech investors. We have built a diversified pipeline, worked with companies to scale them for…
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The Bank of England's deputy governor for financial stability, Jon Cunliffe, has warned that cryptocurrencies could spark a global financial crisis unless tough regulations are introduced.
Jan Swafford reviews Beethoven X—a new completion of the composer's unfinished Tenth Symphony, rendered by AI.
How AI21 labs is competing against OpenAI in the profitable area of large language models.
The criminals used deepfake software to recreate the voice of an executive at a large company, then called a bank manager to request transfers.
Whenever someone snaps my picture, I automatically strike a pose, doing my best to compose my features and limbs into something that doesn’t look awkward or silly. I guess I could just stand there…
This is a #robot that walks, flies, #skateboards, #slacklines, and might do much more one day. A portion of this video was sponsored by Bluehost. Start build...
So far, the leaps in energy-intensive computing power far outpace the lagging shift to a green economy.
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Clocking in at 165 pages (a 23% increase from 2021’s masterpiece), Messari’s annual “Crypto Theses 2022” remains (in my humble opinion) the industry’s most impressive overview of the crypto…
Puma Browser is one of a handful of browsers experimenting with Web3 integrations. In this post, we’ll be taking a deep dive into how Puma integrates these protocols.
There is a disproportionate amount of chatter in discussing blockchain, tokens, and coins that are part of the “how” behind Web 3.0. Here’s a non-technical narrative on the “why” behind the…
I’ve written a bit in the past about NFTs and Crypto and based on a few reader requests, wanted to summarize the current state of web3. While definitions vary somewhat, people generally refer to web3…
Curated resources for those seeking to understand, build, and otherwise get involved with decentralized autonomous organizations or DAOs
Gavin Wood, who coined the term Web3 in 2014, believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy.
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From nesting to networking: forms of decentralization according to Nathan Schneider
The W3C is facing a critical decision about the future of the Web that may come down to a vote on how much decentralization really matters.
As we all predicted back in the 1990s, the net has spawned new opportunities for independent creators and consumers of all sorts. Blogs, YouTube, print-on-demand, 3D printing, Etsy, eBay, 99designs…
What if you could pin Adobe Aero 3D content in the real world and interact with it in both AR and VR with friends, colleagues, and customers? Let's teleport ...
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to believe his metaverse is the final frontier. The misconception comes with over a century of warnings.
We cannot support our employer’s decision to supply the Israeli military and government technology that is used to harm Palestinians
Trial of robots to police ‘undesirable’ behaviour such as smoking or breaching social-distancing rules
THE PROJECT A collaboration between Sharon K. Weiner (School of International Service) and Moritz Kütt (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg), The Nuclear Biscuit uses a Virtual Reality (VR) experience to better understand decision-making during a nuclear crisis.
A drop is a seemingly random release of a limited-number of products with a goal of creating perception of scarcity and urgency. Drops have proven to be a successful brand-building tool, as they…
We all want to do good. Well, a great many of us want to do good. We recognize that the climate is in peril, corporations are dangerously extractive, wealth disparity is at all-time highs, our kids…
"The Drink" After a little more than 2 months of work here it finally is! "The Drink", a short film that's 100% CGI and made by me using Blender, After effec...
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Drawing with salt
This year, Bozar invites Kapelica Gallery for Contemporary Investigative Arts from Ljubljana (Slovenia), as one of the main actors in the field of Arts, Scie...
Helen Little takes you past some of the highlights in David Hockney: Works from the Tate Collection, 1954-2017, which illustrates Hockney's long career.More ...
“Quality is an attitude of mind.” The great architectural mastermind of our time, Norman Foster here reflects on a long and prosperous career – and life – wi...
To celebrate the rarity and complexity of the new Grande Sonnerie timepieces, we have collaborated with renowned Swiss enamel artisan Anita Porchet. For this...
Toxic, fragile, soft, hyper? What is masculinity?Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class arts and...
Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent - Free Sculpt - Nimue Deprest - afdeling Digitale Beeldende Kunst - #www.academiegent.be/inschrijven
Lichtfestival Gent 2021 - Mécaniques Discursives - Fred Penelle & Yannick Jacquet. Video by Patrick Baele
In collaboration with opera director Monique Wagemakers, the Netherlands-based Studio Drift creates a stunning visual installation titled Ego for Dutch opera...
Ego is a time-based sculpture, portraying the perspective of a human, and how our hopes, truths, and emotions are a direct result of the rigidness or fluidit...
the spain pavilion exhibition at expo 2020 dubai comprises a 3D printed artificial forest capable of producing oxygen.
Six songs out of 'Several Others' played live.Session recorded in December 2020.Dead End 00:00Heat 03:45Screens 07:34Surface 11:36Satantango 14:58Surgery 18:...
Bolis Pupul performs "Moon Theme" for Episode 4 of DEEWEE TEEVEE.Single available digitally ► https://bolispupul.lnk.to/MSTheme Filmed at Studio DEEWEE in Ge...
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To attract a female fish, the Japanese Puffer fish will work 24 hours a day, for an entire week in a row, to create the most stunning sand art.This most incr...
I lost a good friend. About 20 years ago, Kim introduced me to his 7 Laws of Identity and to the concept of verified credentials. My understanding of digital identity changed forever. Eternal gratitude, Kim. Rest in peace.
Digital identity thought leader Kim Cameron´s passion for fundamentally influencing the way we think about, and deal with privacy and digital identity, has brought us where we are today and will endure forever. On 30th November, 2021, Kim passed away after his courageous battle with cancer. We will continue to honor him by living by his ideals that he expressed back in 2005 with his 7 Laws of identity.