Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #85

The very best

About business blockchain platforms. Excellent analysis by R3's Richard Brown.

About the network area ending male dominated power structures

About some misconceptions/alternatives regarding profound change in organisations.

About speculative humanitarian futures and related artefacts. By Changeist.

About the technologies of consciousness as they are encoded in original human cultures. 

I often get pushback when making the argument that research in cultural evolutionary studies can be applied to real-world social problems at community scales. What I find fascinating is that the…

Why are men avoiding even platonic contact and what damage is this causing them? Here's how we can heal the physical and emotional isolation of men.

Data and Society

Data firms such as the rapidly expanding WeWork hope to blur the line between home and office. That won’t be any help to staff

Europe’s IOTA Foundation is launching a blockchain-based exchange that will allow corporations to securely buy and sell data collected by devices on the Internet of Things (IoT). Initial participants…

Zeitgeist

Amid record amounts of capital raised by VCs worldwide, and a sharp rise in the number of private "unicorns," there has been a quiet, barely noticed implosion..

Innovation

Complexity at Work & the Superhero Paradox

The main theme of Slush this year was using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems( https://innovator.news/shooting-for-the-moon-how-tech-will-shape-our-future-acccb070e6c3) Naveen Jain…

Writing matters in business, design, and life alike—it is fundamental to moving your ideas forward. Yet, writing short, meaningful sentences that grab your users’ attention can be painful. Ernest…

Collective Creativity and The Power of Immersive Experience. 

We can’t afford to wait and judge them by their legacy.

Every large and successful institution has an immune system – a collection of individuals who are prepared to mobilize at the slightest sign of any “outside” ideas or people in order to ensure that these foreign bodies are neutralized and...

Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint and writes about startups, fund raising, SaaS companies, and best practices for founders.

Future of work

After getting lost in the conference hotel, I finally located the ‘creativity workshop’. Joining the others, I sat cross-legged on the floor. Soon, an ageing hippie was on his feet. ‘Just walk around the room and introduce yourself,’ he said. ‘But...

In this blog post Corporate Rebels discuss the painful results of the research study that was performed by independent market research firm Markteffect.

@Sales_Source

Internet Culture

It often happened to me to work with organizations willing to establish an API strategy, as if such thing exists for real. In the luckiest cases this strategy is seen, at least, as part of a wider…

FinTech

Vitalik Buterin named on of the top 50 most influential people by Bloomberg, joins luminaries such as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk.

By bridging the gap between Bitcoin and traditional finance,Ripple has also become a figure of hate for many within the world of cryptocurrency

FInTech evolution - This evolution started with the birth of the signature verification system Pantelegraph, invented by Giovanni Caselli.

Affirm Inc., an online lender run by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, is in advanced talks for a financing round that would earn it a place in the unicorn startup club.

Ripple followed up its recent announcement of opening an office in India, with an event organized for financial institutions and regional partners. As a Ripple partner, a team from FSS attended the Ripple Deep Dive in Mumbai. Our key impressions and learnings from the event:

ASX today announced its intention to replace the system that underpins the post-trade processes of Australia’s equity market with the Digital Asset Platform, following the successful completion of extensive testing over the past two years.

The cryptocurrency was supposed to replace the finance industry. Instead, it has replicated it.

The IOTA price continued to surge on Tuesday, enabling the native currency of the "next generation blockchain" project to surpass Ripple's XRP token to become the fourth-largest cryptocurrency.

Startups have always been around, as has the pursuit of new technology solutions for banking delivery, says Leda Glyptis, so why are we saying fintechs?

AI, Robots, Algorythms

Check out Capital One's head of AI & data innovation @apwenchel insights at the end of this newsletter 

Eight other projects are in the pipeline.

A new report gauges how far we’ve come, dampening ideas that machines are approaching human-type intelligence.

China's search giant, Baidu, missed mobile. It's now staking its future on AI—and it just might have an edge.

Machine learning, with its prowess in producing insights from data, is poised to have a hand in 99 percent of investing, CEO says.

What Does it Mean to Be Human? [This is a talk I was going to give at Slush but had to change my travel plans.] A 12 minute talk should be plenty to address this simple question. Just kidding. This is...

Art related

Brian Eno’s creative activities defy categorization. Widely known as a musician and producer, Eno has expanded the frontiers of audio and visual art for decades, and posited new ways of approaching creativity in general. He is a thinker and speaker, activist and eccentric. He formulated the idea of

Some think that this mysterious Magritte painting is the beginning of modern art. It inspires a lot more questions than you might think, writes Cath Pound.