Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #95

The very best

Pablos Holman is founder of Bombsheller: bringing down product cycles from nine months to nine weeks is not good enough. What about bringing that down to nine hours?

But change is coming, and will likely create a massive increase in the speed, number and complexity of companies, all powered by automation of company formation, and driven by demand from new…

Discover the stories behind this year’s festival highlights and special projects in our Rewire 2018 documentary. From Laurie’s unforgettable finale at the Gr...

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business.

Celebrate the power of design through 100 objects which are all shaping the world of tomorrow. This major exhibition explores the ways in which emerging tech...

Only the world can be enough: the philosopher offers ‘A Global History of Philosophy’. Book review by Marina Vaizey

The entire process takes two weeks of literally raking the desert floor.

The Soft Power Palace festival stands for the need to strengthen European cultural exchange and methods of togetherness – between art, social practice, and activism.

I've been at loose ends for a month or two. In the moonlight. As I mentioned earlier, I published The Hollow Earth & Return to the Hollow Earth , and sent the

Data and Society

Facebook is a broadcast platform for anyone, including those who would break the rules, fake the news, lie, and mislead the community. Societies around the world are reeling from the consequences. Politics and democracy are under duress. And thus far, Facebook does not have an effective way to fight back.

As drive-by attacks get harder, hackers exploit the trust we have in software providers.

Google is being sent repeated "reverse location" orders from federal agents. Privacy activists warn they threaten the privacy of thousands of innocent people.

In her new book, Alex Rosenblat talked with drivers in 25 cities to trace the story of how ride-hailing redefined the nature of work.

Zeitgeist

Uber has managed to create an ecosystem that unapologetically shows us our future under bright fluorescent lighting.

As Saudi Arabia diversifies away from oil, it's pouring money into Silicon Valley.

Innovation

Success in the digital world is a daunting task, especially for traditional businesses that are tied to legacy infrastructures. However, incumbents...

At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, three designers shared the design trends they think are the most overrated in 2018.

Future of work

dorm beds go for about $1,400 per month

Common, a new housing startup, offers to “remove the annoyances” of city life—that is, any sense of obligation to a shared community. It will also order your toilet paper.

Internet Culture

Social conversations about difficult and complex topics have arcs — they tend to start scattered, with many threads and potential paths, then resolve over time toward consensus. This consensus…

Physicists say this futuristic, super-secure network could be useful long before it reaches technological maturity.

As more companies and consumers back away from VR, what does the future hold for the tech that was going to change the world?

Shop till you drop in China's wholesale mega-market

FinTech

HTC just announced more specs for its much-hyped blockchain phone, the Exodus 1, and is letting people sign up for preorders. The phone contains a wallet that’s kept in a secure area "protected from the Android OS," according to the press release. The wallet can hold the keys to your cryptocurrency and tokens.

The financial services industry is being transformed by insurgent startup companies. From capital markets to insurance and digital banking to wealth management, the Fintech 250 are the top fintech startups globally.

When I first heard of Bitcoin, it sounded like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. Digital, cryptographic, uncensorable money? It seemed such a radical idea, it couldn’t possibly belong in…

Blockchain technology startup Ripple Labs Inc confirmed to Reuters on Friday that it hired Amir Sarhangi, who had been leading Google's rollout of a new wireless messaging system, as vice president of products.

Ant Financial plans to invest $100 million in StoneCo's IPO, while Berkshire Hathaway reportedly wants to buy up to 14.2 million of the company’s shares.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

The team was able to draw on Google’s vast vaults of computational power to create life-like images that were beyond almost anything seen before.

No longer a "Bloomberg killer," the Goldman-backed service is evolving into something more interesting.

Far from being the sole creation of an AI, 'Edmond de Belamy' was the result of months of work by three people using a machine learning algorithm from 2014.

Post Capitalism

In this extract from an essay published on The Great Transition Initiative, Guy Standing proposes a Commons Fund for the precariat.

Art related

Kosmischer Läufer is so good that it’s largely irrelevant that it’s the fruit of a well-executed hoax.

Free Pack download of weird and wonderful 1970s sci-fi sounds, loops and effects from the legendary Polish Radio Experimental Studio.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit an art-rock masterpiece, a thrilling synthesis of artifice and Afrobeat.

Artist David Shrigley answers questions from our readers and famous fans

Aesthetics

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For more than a decade, the event has fought to cement the city as Asia's fashion capital. But while there's certainly stiff competition from Seoul and Shanghai, Tokyo designers' biggest challenge seems to be overcoming the city's own reputation.

Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture

This captioned video shows the dramatic helix staircase that Danish studio CEBRA has created inside the Experimentarium science centre in Copenhagen.

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Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture