Edition-129 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. I did not expect so much good stuff coming out during the last week of the year. So, contrary to what I said last week, THIS is the last Delicacies of 2018. Enjoy the holidays’ festivities and renewed contact with family and friends. See you all back next year!

• About the Silicon Valley religion that humans are the problem and tech is the solution. By @rushkoff: https://medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/the-anti-human-religion-of-silicon-valley-ac37d5528683
• About Studio D by Jan Chipchase who is my inspiration for doing design, research and strategy consultancy right. His annual report, long and oh soo fascinating read: https://medium.com/@janchip/2018-end-of-year-report-19d36c54b3dc
• About software eating mobility and cars becoming smartphones on wheels. By @RikVera: https://nexxworks.com/blog/software-is-eating-mobility
• About the biggest technology failures of 2018: https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/the-biggest-technology-failures-of-2018-52eaf050751a
• About the role we allow technology to play in the future of food, and some sinister disaster scenarios associated with that: https://singularityhub.com/2018/12/23/eating-hacked-what-happened-when-tech-took-over-food/#sm.0001gw1yxj1dtpeivvd8wjme2wl2o

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Edition-128 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. This is the last delicacies for this year. Back in Jan 2019. Happy holidays.

• About Fjord trends 2019. A bit like Mary Meekers annual state of the union, but focused on design, with some refreshening insights and with a stunning beautiful lay-out: https://trends.fjordnet.com/
• About the ability to use one’s body with great precision, helping to facilitate the implementation your goals: https://exploringyourmind.com/what-is-kinesthetic-intelligence/
• About a design fiction on what could happen when technology is making people unhinged and violent: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612590/the-reunion-a-new-science-fiction-story-about-surveillance-in-china/
• About cutting the BS. Canning the excuses. Forgetting the fancy reports. Getting moving now. Getting the job done. Tom Peters reflects on a half-century spent studying management: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/blinding-flash-obvious
• About the funny unintended consequences om making the wrong predictions. Keep these ads in mind when you read the avalanche of trends for 2019: https://www.ranker.com/list/vintage-ads-and-drawings-that-tried-to-predict-the-future/ashley-reign?collectionId=2133&l=2674436&ref=collections

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Edition-127 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About criticool thinking and countercultures (and the illusion of it). Superb essay by Silvio Lorusso: https://medium.com/the-entreprecariat/the-designer-without-qualities-notes-on-ornamental-politics-ironic-attachment-bureaucreativity-40f09a618e2c
• About using tech to build a future centered on our pre-digital values of connection, creativity and respect. A must hear 10 min TED talk by @rushkoff: https://www.ted.com/talks/douglas_rushkoff_how_to_be_team_human_in_the_digital_future
• About Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios and extreme experiences. Awesome video of her talk at Re:Publica and giving me at least a LOT of energy. “Go for it!”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFnKeevb2d0
• About the evolution of different platforms on a 2 by 2 matrix: centralised/decentralised and for profit/for benefit. Fascinating talk by @mbauwens (no! slides ;-): https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/michel-bauwens-on-technological-sovereignty-in-the-transition-from-a-marxist-capitalism-to-a-proudhonian-capitalism/2018/12/11
• About a critical view by Carlota Perez on policy suggestions made by Brynjolfsson and McAfee in The Second Machine Age: http://beyondthetechrevolution.com/blog/second-machine-age-or-fifth-technological-revolution-part-9-final/

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Edition-126 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 first public demonstration of word processing, text messaging, and a weird little device dubbed a “mouse.” https://mashable.com/article/mother-of-all-demos-douglas-engelbart-50-years/
• About fixing surveillance with sousveillance, and why personal data stores never will work: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2018/12/we-cant-own-information.html
• About a mathematician looking at the everyday world with the eyes of a child: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
• About artists merging with engineers and the relationship between science and art (video): https://vimeo.com/228557512
• About 486,713 ways to get to Rome: awesome visualisation project: http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/an-interactive-map-shows-just-how-many-roads-actually-lead-to-rome.html

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Edition-125 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Intimacy. This is very good. The internet’s quintessential, paradoxical message is “Only Connect.”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crisis-intimacy-age-digital-connectivity/
• About cyberwars: you are the territory. Excellent introduction to the so called “warm” wars going on at this very right moment: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/
• About spacial computing by Robert Scobble: good intro and good resources and embedded links: https://scobleizer.blog/2018/11/26/spatial-computing-bigger-than-magic-leap/
• About the end of trust. Long (300+ page PDF) on what’s wrong about online trust and how to fix it: https://www.eff.org/document/end-trust-0
• About some recommendations to Zuck to make “good” software that meets users’ needs: https://medium.com/what-to-build/dear-zuck-fd25ecb1aa5a

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