Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #84

The very best

About good government requiring transparency, accountability, and collaboration in the age if surveillance capitalism. Very good.

About a culture of flourishing: an absolute must read by MIT's Joi Ito.

About Carlota Pérez 240-year perspective

About the terrible future of jobs and so called "gig economy" > disturbing

About Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin transforming a manufacturing giant into a platform for entrepreneurship.

Our media and conversations are consumed by concerns over the spread of AI and what it will mean for jobs. I’ve noticed that the discussion quickly turns to what skills we will need to continue to be employable in the...

About John Havens elaborating on Joi Ito's essay and moving beyond the dualistic narrative of good/bad AI

Developing human interactions with autonomous systems

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Data and Society

Zeitgeist

From earlier this year. The revered producer has been at the centre of pop since the days of Roxy Music. But don’t ask him about the past – he’s more interested in how to reorder society

On Tuesday, La Casemate, a fablab based in Grenoble was vandalized and burned because it was described as “a notoriously harmful institution by its diffusion of digital culture”. The public policy of…

The receding ice has opened new passageways for high-speed internet cables. Point Hope, a gravel spit in northwest Alaska, is along one of the new routes.

Innovation

Innovation Labs Don’t Work

The 2015 Digital Business Report by MIT SMR and Deloitte identifies strategy as the key driver in the digital arena.

Beyond Innovation Labs: Integrating Startups into the Parent Organization

How the secretive Silicon Valley lab is trying to resurrect the lost art of invention

In a previous post, I wrote about how large companies are poised to be the greatest beneficiaries of the lean startup movement. We are entering an era of technology that is well suited to the…

le-Up-problem, we found it helpful to divide the process from ‘insights’ to ‘significant business impact’ into three different stages:

You can make the system work for you.

We have seen the incredible rise of platforms that have become part of our everyday lives. Be these Apple, Google, eBay, Amazon, Android, Facebook, Microsoft, Alibaba, Salesforce, Uber, Airbnb, PayPal and many more, all becoming some of the hottest companies in value. They have built out their business on powerful platforms for us to simply…

Why winner-take-all prize structures increase churn among participants.

How do you describe disruption and innovation, two terms that have become less meaningful as their use has increased?

Future of work

The annual review is a waste. It's not particularly useful for employee or boss, it's stressful and it doesn't happen often enough to make much of an impact. If you choose to, though, you can do your own review. Weekly...

Internet Culture

It seems increasingly likely that our society will one day view our infatuation with Twitter, Facebook, and the like as a passing, often destructive fad.

FinTech

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This is the latest in my ICO mania series of blog posts. Background A couple of months ago, when the price of 1 Bitcoin hovered around a relatively benign $5,000, I sat down for coffee with an investor who runs a fairly substantial chunk of money. Over the course of that chat, he told me…

About the blockchain stack. A couple weeks ago, I mentioned the moat of jargon around crypto. Even among those who have been working on this technology for years, there is often dispute over preferred terminology. Indeed, the…

The Federal Reserve is considering adopting its own digital currency similar to bitcoin, according to the president and CEO of the Fed's New York branch.

Is this the end of Blockchain or DLT within banking and payments? Is the Blockchain hype cycle finally dead? Image Source In July this year, I wrote about the SWIFT GPI initiative and the DLT PoC they were developing along with 33 banks to address the inter-bank payments process. The post in July also mentioned…

US banks are the most prepared to handle the potential disruption of artificial intelligence to their business, new research reveals.

Despite rumors, the Amazon subsidiary will not be launching the same type of Blockchain-based services as its competitors, cites “other solutions.”

The cryptocurrency may not be a threat to the world economy, but that should not stop regulators from protecting investors from it

What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies

AI, Robots, Algorythms

In 1965, I. J. Good described for the first time the notion of “intelligence explosion”, as it relates to artificial intelligence (AI): Decades later, the concept of an “intelligence explosion” …

As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it.

Researchers are launching a gigantic study to see how people interact with assisted driving systems, like Tesla's Autopilot.

Post Capitalism

New highways and trains and changes in farming are opening up the country’s poorer cities and rural areas, long laggards amid China’s torrid growth.

“Countryside: Future of the World” will explore how the world’s rural landscapes have been altered by technology, migration and climate change.

Art related

“Countryside: Future of the World” will explore how the world’s rural landscapes have been altered by technology, migration and climate change.

When it comes to riffing on an existing work of art, the issue's not just what you do, it's when you do it.

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