Occasionally, you come across a video a little late that you really should have seen earlier, because the statements in it hit the mark. One such video comes from Apple’s long-time chief designer Jony Ive, who gave a commencement speech … Continue reading Jony Ive on Creativity, Ideas and Curiosity
A terrorist attack against the power supply for the Tesla factory paralyzed production a few weeks ago. Demonstrations and occupations of the planned site caused weeks of commotion before the factory was built. Tesla’s water consumption is also constantly brought … Continue reading Schizophrenic Germany: Lamenting Deindustrialization While Fighting Tesla
A few years ago, I conducted a survey among my newsletter subscribers in which I asked them about their own country’s outstanding technological, economic or scientific successes or failures, or how they viewed the USA and China. The participants had … Continue reading Driving With The Handbrake On
The mood in the country is bad, I have just heard from friends, and there are many reasons why exactly. However, one of the reasons is our success over the last few decades, which has made us overconfident. I notice … Continue reading Deflecting, Lulling and Hysteria – The Strange New German Leitkultur
In the bookstore Morawa in downtown Vienna, a man collapses on his knees, raises his hands in the air and complains loudly about unheard-of things. What had happened? The traditional bookstore, which is located just across the street from the … Continue reading Sphexishness OR The ability or inability to change behavior.
A review of my book on artificial intelligence, When Monkeys Teach Monkeys, indirectly blamed me as naïve. The reviewer said: I’ve found few arguments in favor of AI, but maybe that’s because I don’t want to downplay the dangers. In … Continue reading The Incompetence of Cynics – A Study
It wasn’t so long ago that I still had to explain who Elon Musk was during my presentations in Europe. Not even in the automotive industry, where Tesla had already attracted attention, was the name familiar in 2015. I refer … Continue reading Elon Musk & Twitter: Why is everyone hyperventilating?
That mindset as a predominant psychological personality trait can have an impact on oneself or even an entire nation or culture was already summarized by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: The view … Continue reading “Can we finally talk about the negative impact now?”
How do cities recover from COVID lockdowns? This question has so far been based on rather unreliable data and statements, but a new study from UC Berkeley evaluates mobile connections in 62 cities and compares the same periods from 2019 … Continue reading When the City Dwellers Stay Away