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
Which invention in human history has had the greatest impact on our well-being? The computer? The plow? The printing press? Nutella? All undoubtedly worthy candidates that deserve a regular place in the ancestral gallery of mankind’s most important inventions. However, … Continue reading Climate change? Overpopulation? Famine? No! The Threat of a Looming Population Collapse Should Worry Us
While COVID vaccination campaigns are underway in all countries and restrictions are slowly being lifted, we should also pause and recognize how little we take for granted that these vaccines exist. With Moderna, BionTech/Pfizer, Johnson&Johnson, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V and Sinovac, … Continue reading Timeline of Vaccine Developments
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
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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