Episode 57: Unpleasant Pokémon

This week, Doug and Dai discuss the new UK Prime Minister, the development of We Are Open Co-op, digital strategy, the future of work, unpleasant design, blockchain, Pokémon Go, killer robots, akrasia, willpower, and more!

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Intro

• Teresa May new UK Prime Minister
• EU referendum: youth turnout almost twice as high as first thought
• We Are Open website now live!
• Slack channel link actually working

Education

• ‘Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years’
• Poetweet
• Questions you need to ask when developing a digital strategy

Technology

• McKinsey Report looking at automation — where can machines replace humans?
• The Future of Work
• Harold Jarche tweet
• Unpleasant Design & Hostile Urban Architecture (06:30–07:10 r.e. ‘immutability’)
• UK Gov’t is Trialling the Blockchain for Welfare & Pensions
• The Tragedy of Pokémon Go
• Man’s home, mis-tagged as a church, becomes a Pokemon Go gym.
• Pokémon Go is automatically granting permission to read your Gmail
• ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android
• Nintendo stock up 35% due to Pokémon Go success
• Everyone Is Talking About This Photo From the Protests in Baton Rouge
• Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of ‘Killer Robot’ in Dallas
• NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as “extremists”

Misc.

• Level Up Your Willpower Stats for a More Successful Workday
• The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through On What We Set Out to Do And What To Do About It
• Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.

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