Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #94

The very best

“Cyberpunk” has been the go-to imagery of the future for 35 years old—it’s time for new ways to think about what’s to come

About letting oneself feel vulnerable: "Maybe for the first time, I felt free."

A tale befitting the power and tragedy of the age of climate change.

Future Perfect was Data & Society’s first-ever experimental onsite gathering of creators and practitioners whose work broadly addresses themes of speculative fiction, embodied futures, and the…

How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.

Sotheby’s is operating like a hedge fund, choosing to scale back on expertise and invest risk-free in performance.

Christine's self portrait

Minimalism, thought to be a solution to our overstimulated lives, is actually dulling our senses.

DNA has the potential to be a million times more powerful than current technologies

Musings and reports from the frontlines of beautiful business.

Each year, Jeff Bezos writes an open letter to Amazon's shareholders. Over the last two decades, these letters have become an unparalleled source of insight into how the world's richest man — and his company — think about customers, innovation, building products, and more.

H-FARM

The question of whether time moves in a loop or a line has occupied human minds for millenia. Has physics found the answer?

Given the parlous state of global affairs in recent years, there has been a renewed focus on futurism. It questions the grandiose projections of future-obsessed Western thinkers and artists of the past, and

Data and Society

Google Earth for knowledge

A short talk for the Biometrics Congress, explaining the digital identity vision in contrast to the dead-end digitised identity vision. Here are what people tw…

Implications for the whole of society of the data policies of collaborative economy platforms.

Neuroscientists create a map of the “human feeling space.”

Microsoft just brought an architecture firm to its IoT lab for the first time–here’s what it could mean for the future of buildings.

Zeitgeist

When a new social vision inspires people, society changes rapidly. This has happened many times. Neither power structures nor economic circumstances can usually stand in the way.¹ But we haven’t had…

Co-living is the natural step after co-working.

News, videos, ideas, and obsessions from the new global economy

A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 10% thought things are getting better, in the US they were only 6%, and in Germany only 4%. Very few people think that the world is getting better.

Innovation

Within innovation strategy, we identified 4 types of innovators: hunters, builders, explorers, and experimenters. Which type of innovator are you?

The Innovation Excellence community is home to articles, webinars, videos, training and education - powering growth in the innovation management profession.

Why big companies squander brilliant ideas

Hyperlean tackles digital transformation from the angle of operating models, far from usual theorical and incantatory discourses.

Future of work

An earlier draft of this list, stuck to the PD office door Our definition of digital says: “Applying the culture, processes, business models & technologies of the internet-era to respond to people’s raised expectations.” Once they’ve heard that, the next thing people always ask us is: “OK. But how? How do I make that happen…

To be pro-value, codesigning the best way to get work done, operating on a short cycle time, making everything visible and transparent, that’s the kind of…

I love being a boss, but some things about the role are challenging. I love hiring great people, sharing my vision, giving them what they need (within reason) to execute the vision, and letting them…

Internet Culture

Spotify pushes an Uber-like model for independent artists.

SoftBank, the world’s largest tech investment fund, partnered with the Kingdom to pump billions into America’s startups

FinTech

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with San Francisco, California-based blockchain firm Coil with a view of enhancing financial access for the unbanked and underprivileged communities.

Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last year's absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next. The promise to cure the world's ills through "decentralization" was just a ruse to separate retail investors from their hard-earned real money.

Discover how financial institutions and banks are using sentiment analysis software to learn what people are saying about their brand and take action of it.

Norway's DNB has invested £3 million for a five percent stake in a new digital banking toolset developed by consultancy 11:FS.

Here's a view of what a decentralized, all-code company might look like in its initial form.

Some claim that decentralized system that have to be governed aren't really decentralized. This article explains why that thinking is misguided.

J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has long touted his bank's need to embrace Silicon Valley through investments in technology. He's now opening up an office for more than 1,000 people in one of the nation's most expensive real estate markets.

Nick Paumgarten on the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner argues that grants only create dependency.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

How should we think about ethics at the dawning of the robotic age? Although considerable attention has already been devoted to the subject of robots and responsibility, the question concerning the…

The profound otherness of computation presents radical opportunities for new ways of being in the world. How might being or becoming computational offer new ...

Amazon.com Inc's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.

Algorithms reflect the societal biases already present in the systems they're automating, presenters argued at an artificial-intelligence symposium in New York.

MIT is creating a new definition of "bilingual."

Apple has insisted there’s no truth to the report that Chinese spies installed espionage hardware in its servers

Boston Dynamics dog dances on Bruno Mars

Post Capitalism

Read how Guerrilla Translation and its extended family reimagined itself as care-oriented Distributed Cooperative Organization (DCO).

Art related

A new museum about the Velvet Underground places the underground band in a starkly capitalist context

Known for her ‘pictorial weavings’, the 20th century artist’s contribution to modern art and design is being recognised in a new exhibition at the Tate Modern

One piece recently sold for $16,000 at an auction.

Each year, Adobe launches a range of updates and showcases forthcoming products at its creative conference, Adobe MAX. Here's a look at some of the highlights from this year's event - from voice prototyping tools to a whole new app for video creators

Aesthetics

Dance maestro Benjamin Millepied directs this historically minimal take on Bach

Mecanoo's 141,000-square-metre National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, described as the "world's largest performing arts centre under one roof", is now open

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas, I meanwhile got absolutely wasted and watched all six episodes of Planet Earth 2. It was amazing. To any loyal HP f...

Beautiful experiences lift the human spirit. They say, optimistically, life is worthwhile. If we can be more beautiful in our thoughts and in our actions, we can learn to live and work more…

There hasn't been any PMQs for several weeks so I whipped this up for your entertainment. Enjoy! ► SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/HarrysMovingCastle...

Farming is big and repetitive. It shapes and forms are best appreciated from the air.

Home baker Lauren Ko creates spectacular geometric pie crust designs that look almost too good to eat. From complex lattices to geometric patterns made of colorful fruit, each edible work of art is a feast for the eyes (and no doubt the taste buds).

Other

The band's groundbreaking stage show is designed to ensure everyone has a front-row seat.