A few days ago, a friend posted one of these photos that I too am in the habit of taking: from a book table in a bookstore with her own freshly published non-fiction book between a series of other non-fiction … Continue reading Future Angst In One Image
Which invention in human history has had the greatest impact on our well-being? The computer? The plough? The letterpress? Nutella? All of these are undoubtedly worthy candidates who deserve a regular place in the ancestral gallery of the most important … Continue reading Past Chances – We Once Could Do It!
COVID-19 forces us all to a new way of living and working. Working and learning from home, online shopping, more leisure time and stress at the same time are only a few of the phenomena we all experience on ourselves. … Continue reading Survey Results: Our Future After Corona
Every few years it happens again: the state must intervene to save banks, companies and societies from collapsing. In 2008 it was the financial crisis, in 2000 the bursting of the Internet bubble, in 1987 Black Monday, in 1973 the … Continue reading Pandemic, Predicament, and Prison – How to Educate Companies
Do we still remember this pandemic which, for the better part of 2020, paralyzed life and the economy worldwide for several months? This is what happens when you don’t have a vaccine for an infectious disease. What COVID-19 is to … Continue reading Of Vaccination Opponents And Men Of Honour
If this pandemic has shown us anything, it is above all one thing: how little we really know where in the air or on surfaces pathogens and harmful substances are found. We are flying blind when we move around the … Continue reading Corona: We lack AR sensors for pollutants in the air and on surfaces
If we sit back, close our eyes and think about which technologies or which scientific breakthroughs of recent years came from our country and had great or supra-regional significance, what would we think of? Would these be the same ones that citizens of other countries would enumerate, would they be asked the question about our country?
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Just this week I had a delegation of German entrepreneurs visiting Silicon Valley, with whom I toured innovative local companies, met interesting people, but also took them to places where we encountered new technologies. So we drove to areas where a number of companies are testing self-propelled cars. We saw the Waymos, Nuros, Kodiaks, Zoox and GM Cruise up close and with fascination.
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Kleptomania or sloppiness seems to unite 180 countries and regions of the world. In any case, if we are to believe the numbers that list the gifts of moon rocks that have since disappeared and cannot be found. With the Apollo 11 and 17 lunar missions, the astronauts brought back dozens of kilograms of moon rocks. Those rocks were not only to be made available to scientists in the USA or disappear behind vault walls, but also to be handed over to other countries.
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ — Mr. Rogers. A journalist from a German … Continue reading The Modern Anti-Renaissance