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December 11 · Issue #65 · View online
Articles/posts that for some reason created a spark in my memory.
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Extended version of Petervan’s Delicacies. Nice harvest this week!
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Google, democracy and the truth about internet search | Technology | The Guardian
About the sophistication of us being gamed by search, algorithms, fake news. Must read.
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Sensual Computing – GHVR – Medium
About sensual computing meshing the computer’s mastery of data with the human capacity for understanding.
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INBOUND 2016: Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah Keynote - YouTube
About participatory online marketing anno 2017 (long but very good) Co-Founders of HubSpot Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah deliver Keynotes at INBOUND 2016.
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10 Hot Consumer Trends 2017 - Ericsson ConsumerLab
About the Ericsson ConsumerLab research consumer trends for 2017.
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Jigsaw Presents: Clay Shirky: "Little Rice" | Talks At Google - YouTube
About Clay Shirky’s Google talk about “Little Rice”, his latest book on hyperinnovation in China.
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Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines - The Atlantic
About searching for lost knowledge. As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration.
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Connected but unequal: The mechanics of inequality in a networked world
If we closely analyze the mechanics that drive todays platforms and networks, we learn — rather disturbingly — that digital platforms are designed to drive greater social inequality, not reduce it…
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Watch Goings On About Town | Alvin Ailey’s Enduring Vision | The New Yorker Video | CNE
about the historical role of the arts and finding our common humanity
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Memes do not matter | The Outline
Pepe didn’t swing the election.
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Data populists must seize our information – for the benefit of us all | Evgeny Morozov | Opinion | The Guardian
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A Future of Trusted Advisors: Loyalty to the customer, not customer loyalty - Techonomy
Similar to a wealth advisor or wellness coach/personal trainer, the trusted advisor role presents a huge growth opportunity for businesses. These advisors proactively make recommendations aligned with its customers’ best interests, to create real value for the customer. The biggest challenge for companies trying to employ and market the services of such trusted advisors? Becoming trusted.
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GE integrates Alexa into its first desk lamp
What if you mashed together an Echo with your desk lamp?
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Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like the Sex Pistols
In 2011, the MIT Media Lab — the smarty-pants citadel of digital creativity — picked a college dropout named Joi Ito as its director. It was a puzzling choice only to those who didn’t know him. Born…
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A Map of Modern Brand Building – David J Carr – Medium
In a connected world where new forces and technologies promise to “change everything” at least twice daily, our oldest concept remains the most important: the brand. Are brands still relevant when…
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From Darkness to Thrivability – Jean M Russell – Medium
Who are we not to live into our greatness? Together, let us dare greatly to make the world we want, one full of compassion, dialogue, understanding. One where we ask forgiveness for our wrongdoings…
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Hostile states pose 'fundamental threat' to Europe, says MI6 chief | UK news | The Guardian
Although Alex Younger does not name specific country, he makes clear that Russia is target of his remarks
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Alexa and Google Home Record What You Say. What Happens to Your Data? | WIRED
Recording your voice and storing it on a server sounds alarming—OK, it is alarming—but there’s a good reason why Amazon Echo and Google Home do it.
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THE GLASS ROOM | Tactical Technology Collective
Located in Manhattan, New York City, The Glass Room is a pop-up shop, a space for reflection, experimentation and play on how our we live our lives online. Mimicking the aesthetics of a high-tech shop, the Glass Room immerses you in a different consumer experience, which allows you to re-evaluate how we use technology and how much we reveal about ourselves when we use it.
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Your privacy is under attack from several terrifying new laws
Last week the United Kingdom passed a new bill that allows for “extreme surveillance.” This Investigatory Powers Bill — better known as the “snooper’s charter” — passed parliament with scarcely a…
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What If a Social Score Determined Your Success? China’s About to Find Out
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Scene from an Office, 2017: The A.I. Arrives - Techonomy
Dinesh could read a Bloomberg terminal like a radiologist reads an x-ray. But now he’d taught some damned machine to do his job better than he could.
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Trump Won (2/6): He Hijacked Everyone - YouTube
This is one of a series of videos processing Trump’s win, which surprised me more than it should have. I’m not only exploring blind spots and tense dynamics,…
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The Logical Space of Algocracy (Redux)
(The following is, roughly, the text of a talk I delivered to the IP/IT/Media law discussion group at Edinburgh University on the 25th of November 2016. The text is much longer than what I actually presented and I modified some of the concluding section in light of the comments and feedback I received on the day. I would like to thank all those who were present for their challenging and constructive feedback. All of this builds on a previous post I did on the ‘logical space of algocracy’)
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How People Like You Spend Their Time | FlowingData
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Laura Poitras Films The Architecture Of Surveillance—And Projects Films On It, Too | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Both iconic and mysterious, this building in lower Manhattan was turned into a screen for a new movie about itself.
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Project X
A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, Project X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan.
This film is the product of a joint reporting project between Field of Vision and The Intercept.
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Engineering Authoritarianism - Cyborgology
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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I have only shown that there is the bomb
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Is a digital pill the key to in-flight customer service?
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The Broken Age – umair haque
Nations are fracturing into tribes
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We’re set to reach 100% renewable energy — and it’s just the beginning
In 2017, Google will reach 100% renewable energy for our global operations — both data centers and offices. To reach this goal we’ll be directly buying enough wind and solar electricity annually to account for every unit of electricity our operations consume.
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Scientists Seek to Update Evolution | Quanta Magazine
Recent discoveries have led some researchers to argue that the modern evolutionary synthesis needs to be amended.
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What Happens When Tech Becomes Self Aware? – NewCo Shift
One of the most interesting trends in technology has nothing to do with AI, or machine learning, or the on demand economy. It has nothing to do with informatics and its impact on genomics, or whether…
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Burning Man's 2017 theme, announced by Larry Harvey, indicates the festival is becoming more like a religion — Quartz
Burning Man, the Nevada desert festival that draws some 60,000 revelers every year, is an annual pilgrimage that resembles religious ritual: It requires travel to a far-off place in the desert, 10 guiding social laws intended to catalyze self-actualization, and the burning of an effigy. Yesterday (December 6) the festival’s co-founder Larry Harvey made clear that Burning Man is now closer to…
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Burning Man theme is 'radical ritual' for 2017
If Burning Man was not a spiritual event before, this year it promises to be.
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INBOUND 2016: Rand Fishkin "How To Keep Up With Google" - YouTube
For more INBOUND content, please visit content.inbound.com Experiencing pain trying to know what works in SEO? This session is your salve. No fluff. No wild …
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How much should we spread out across future scenarios? | Andart II
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The Nikola Motor Company Reveals Its Hydrogen-Fueled Big Rig | Inverse
Nikola unveiled the hydrogen-powered Nikola One big-rig to help drive the trucking industry towards renewable energy.
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Nikola Motor Company Unveiling - Official Video - YouTube
On December 1, 2016, Nikola Motor Company unveiled its electric sleeper semi-truck, the Nikola One. In addition to unveiling the Nikola One, Nikola made seve…
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In Search Of 'The Entrepreneurial Society'
The emerging age of agile.
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The Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out of Big Ideas - WSJ
Dwindling gains in science, medicine and technology hold back growth; is America too risk-averse?
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Gigaom | AWS Re:Invent parting thoughts: The post-hybrid technology landscape will be multiplatform
As I flew away from Amazon Web Services’ Re:Invent developer conference, my first thought was how there is far, far more going…
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Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes – Kenneth Mikkelsen – Medium
In April 2012, Hans Joergen Wiberg presented an unusual idea at a startup event in Denmark. Wilberg, being visually impaired, had identified an opportunity to help blind people cope with everyday…
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Settling Titan, Schneier’s Law, and scenario thinking | Andart II
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Understanding The Trump Bump: Forget About Jobs
Government of the wealthy, by the wealthy and for the wealthy
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Amazon Go and the Future of Work – Inside – Medium
The Inside team (but especially @jason) was blown away yesterday by the news about Amazon’s new Seattle market, the grab-and-go Amazon Go store. So we decided to do what we do and write a lengthy…
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Amazon just teased the future of in-store shopping
The technology is called “Just Walk Out.”
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AWS re:Invent -- Bigger, faster, better? | Computerworld
AWS is an innovation machine. And when you’re already regarded as many orders of magnitude bigger than your nearest competitors, that’s a powerful combination.
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‘Welcome to the Future: Employment Optional’ says The New York Post
Amazon Go is a new supermarket concept that eliminates check out for shoppers, and commentators quickly point out that this will lead to no checkout clerks, hence the apocalyptic headline on the New…
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Inside Peter Thiel’s Genius Factory – Backchannel
The Thiel Fellowship was created to prove a college degree doesn’t matter. It became one of the most elite credentials for young entrepreneurs. We take a look at how the fellowship has changed.
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What's the right structure for a large organisation? - Book of the Future - Book of the Future
Every org chart has the leader at the top or in the middle. But the most important person in any organisation is not the leader. It’s the customer.
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Introducing Gomix – Gomix – Medium
Everybody has good ideas of things we want to make on the Internet. But honestly, it’s gotten too hard. Gomix fixes that. If you’re not a professional developer, the barriers are way too high. There…
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Amazon Go, drone deliveries, and self-driving cars will kill our need to talk to anyone ever — Quartz
This week, Amazon announced that it’s launching a new type of grocery store. You walk in, pick up the boxes of food you want, and you walk out. Thanks to a combination of modern tracking technology, artificial intelligence, and a mobile app that has your payment information, you don’t need to interact with a single other human to…
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The Gadget Apocalypse Is Upon Us - The New York Times
Remember gadgets? They were wonderful, and now they’re no more.
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The Illusion of Payment Disruption | Let's Talk Payments
This article from Lets Talk Payments talks about the illusion of payment disruption.
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Startup Management » State of Global Blockchain Consortia with Interactive Map
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Amazon just opened the door for fintech startups to compete with the likes of Accenture and Capgemini | Business Insider
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Blockchain startup R3 expects to close $150M round in first quarter | TechCrunch
David Rutter, founder and CEO of the four-year-old, New York-based blockchain startup R3 took the stage at Disrupt London this morning to discuss the progress..
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Santander InnoVentures Invests in Tradeshift | Let's Talk Payments
This article from Lets Talk Payments talks about Santander InnoVentures investing in Tradeshift.
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Stellar Launches SWIFT-like Blockchain-Backed Money Transfer Network
The non-for-profit Stellar network has launched a Blockchain-backed money transfer to compete with SWIFT.
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Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology: From code is law to law is code | Filippi | First Monday
Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology: From code is law to law is code
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Bussmann Advisory | Blockchain in 2017: From proof to pilot
Oliver T. Bussmann
Global C-Level Executive | Board Director | Information Technology | Banking, Insurance & Asset Management
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Big data, intuition, and decision-making in finance - YouTube
Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics
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What Stephen Hawking gets right and wrong about ‘the most dangerous time for our planet’ - Vivek Wadhwa
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Bernstein: China, robots, and the end of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - Business Insider
‘The age of industrialization is coming to an end,’ due to the rise of robotics and China’s modernising economy, argues Bernstein.
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The Brain Tech to Merge Humans and AI Is Already Being Developed
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How AI is revolutionising the role of the literary critic | Aeon Essays
Artificial intelligence sheds new light on classic texts. Literary theorists who don’t embrace it face obsolescence
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9 Artificial Intelligence Stats That Will Blow You Away -- The Motley Fool
Artificial intelligence will have a significant and lasting impact on the ways we live and work.
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Crafting a beautiful business - Hack And Craft News : Hack And Craft News
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20 Inspiring Examples of Tape Art That You Must See - noupe
Tape, printed or gaffer tape, double-sided or packing tape – I don`t care as long as it produces such great art. And Tape is a great medium to create linear shapes. So, here are 20 fantastic examples of Tape Art.
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zaha hadid architects open mathematics gallery inside london science museum
the space is the only permanent public museum exhibit designed by zaha hadid anywhere in the world, and the first completed project in the UK since the architect’s passing.
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The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol Stage Proto-Punk Performance Art (1966) | Open CultureThe Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol Stage Proto-Punk Performance Art (1966)
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Lil Buck at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Lil Buck at Fondation Louis Vuitton
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A Look At The Brilliant, Lesser-Known Art Of Zaha Hadid | Co.Design | business + design
Hadid’s prescient early paintings and drawings look as though they could have been made on a computer.
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Art Basel – AVC
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Incredible Coin Stacking by Japanese Artist - BOOOOOOOM! - CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTSBooooooom
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65 Satirical Illustrations Show Our Addiction To Technology
Art is often a mirror, reflecting the social issues and problems of the day. With the rise of ubiquitous Internet, smart phones, and other Internet enabled devices, being online all the time is not only possible, it’s the de facto state for many.This list of satirical illustrations highlight some of the biggest problems with technology addiction. Which one has the strongest message? Vote on your favorite, or if we’ve missed an image that you think should be in this list, upload it below!
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How To Mesmerize Your Audience — Public Speaking Tips from Inbound 2016
Have you ever experienced a keynote or presentation that you couldn’t stop thinking about? At Inbound 2016 there were 100+ breakout sessions, keynotes from top thought leaders and interviews with…
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Trolling My Kids with Google Home - YouTube
Google just opened up “Google Home” to developers today, so I made a fake app to troll my kids after they “misbehave”. If you want to learn how to develop yo…
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