Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #88

The very best

About cryptocurrencies and triple-entry accounting. 

About the big distraction blockchain is. 

About Studio D annual report and state-of-the-art design research.

About Walter Pitts, the man who changes AI.

About the revenge of the business romantics

About Socratic Design and Conscious Business Model Design and Innovation

Excerpt from my book Small Arcs of Larger Circles  (copyright Nora Bateson. Triarchy Press, UK. 2016) In this era of multiple crises and global threats, I am increasingly uneasy with the call for leadership. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson, and other iconic figures are held up as examples of true leaders: they offered charisma, vision…

In 2017, the world saw a China more eager to take its place as a global leader, with president Xi Jinping heralding the importance of a globalized world at Davos, just ahead of Donald Trump's "America First" inauguration in January, and portraying China as being on the frontlines in fighting climate change. But despite the...

Every emotion has a purpose—an evolutionary benefit,” says Sandi Mann, a psychologist and the author of The Upside of Downtime:…

If nanofabricators are ever built, the systems and structure of the world as we know them were built to solve a problem that will no longer exist.

Data and Society

The New Ethics Economy: Learnings from Fjord

Zeitgeist

Nobody talks about the coming apocalypse. It's overwhelming, depressing, hopeless. But we can gain much from talking about it.

Here’s my “Year In Review For Tech VC & Startups, 2017 edition.” For the past few weeks, I’ve jotted down notes on my iPad w/ Pencil, and sort of dreaded the act of writing this given the overall stench of 2017. Yes, there were some bright spots. Focusing […]

The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster

Innovation

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the Siemens Innovation Day. I really appreciated it, yet it took me time to absorb all that was provided, over these past two weeks. One outcome is this post. I am grateful to have had the time to translate this in my mind. We all move…

Forrester Research on the top 10 technology trends to watch, 2018 To 2020

Future of work

Internet Culture

Expect more connected devices at home, "augmented reality" in stores, and creepy facial recognition and tracking of citizens.

FinTech

If you believe the hype, not only are bitcoin miners using more electricity than a number of small countries, but within just two years, Bitcoin is expected to take the world’s entire energy supply…

I have the good fortune to be the Technology Fellow at a London think-tank, the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI). They were asked by the law firm Dentons to put together a series…

For decades, we've turned to institutions to vouch for people we don't know—but thanks to the blockchain, that's all changing.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

The premise of reality 2.0 is to bridge the gap between two worlds: The physical reality we experience and a possible digital reality that you imagine.

Post Capitalism

It’s no surprise that George Packer—one of the most gifted writers in the business—has hit upon a fascinating topic in his latest New Yorker piece: the emerging politics of Silicon Valley. While the…

Art related

A favorite of Thomas Jefferson and Sir Robert Walpole, Château Margaux is one of four original Bordeaux estates to garner a "premiere cru" classification.