Gary Zuercher grew up in Wooster, Ohio, attended high school there, and college at The Ohio State University. He lives with his wife Dominique half the year in Paris and the other half in Washington, …
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Weaving Heaviness and Lightness of Life into Literature: Who is Mira Steffan?
Mira Steffan was born in Oberhausen. She grew up in Bottrop, moved to Bonn and grew up again. After studying law, she began her professional life in the editorial department of a publishing house and …
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Last but not least … (52/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book Afer 52 blogs this series is ending today. As emphasized in the beginning, some of the ideas are …
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Career – all circus?
Text & illustrations by Susanne Gold When it comes to careers, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding today. For a long time, the concept of career followed simple rules: Diligence and getting to …
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Train in wooden sportswear: VIDAR SPORTS
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text by Paula Pröve The textile start-up “VIDAR Sport” from Frankfurt by Christoph Behroz and Rouven Kneipp produces breathable, elastic, tear-resistant and durable sportswear – sustainably from eucalyptus wood. Often heard, even …
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51 weeks of hot air? (51/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book If the idea of Terraism and the terraistic association were good promoters of change into the right direction, …
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The power of the sun – the world in one hundred years
Illustration by Susanne Gold, Text by Silke Wolf I am sitting in my glider and hovering over a colourful meadow of flowers, happily watching rabbits and deer grazing relaxed on the edge of the forest. …
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Rights for states (50/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book After the discussion of rights and obligations for individuals and private organizations it is time to focus on …
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Mathematician, coach and resilience expert: Who is Silke Wolf?
Silke Wolf is a coach, consultant and trainer for resilience and healthy leadership. She was born in Würzburg in 1971, has a degree in mathematics and spent 16 years as an IT consultant helping to …
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Rights for organizations (49/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book In our last blog we focused on rights of individuals in the terraistic association. Today, we will as …
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Rights for Individuals ( 48/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book Who should be able to join the terraistic association? What would be the rights and obligations? Certainly, the …
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Who pays, buys! Really? (47/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book The association needs to be able to finance it activities. Where will the money come from? will the …
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How do “Terraists” communicate (46/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book After all the target discussions and the examination of the inner structures of a terraistic association, there are …
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Plenty of time for respectful design: the world in a hundred years
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text Andrea Mocellin I really feel that we are part of nature, so we have to accept what nature gives us and takes from us. I am pragmatic and think that respect, …
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Sustainability for health: Who is Krystian Manthey?
Krystian is a web designer, certified relaxation trainer and medical editor with advanced training in “lifestyle medicine” (Doane University) and “systematic and critical literature research” (Cochrane). Since the end of his business studies, the native …
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Mission: Colonization of space. Part II (45/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book We are in the middle of describing the role and importance of our terraistic assiciation in the colonization …
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Digital Ethics – Will Unknown Algorithms Direct Our Lives? An Interview with Prof. Dr. Cordula Meckenstock
Interview and Illustration by Corinna Heumann Professor Meckenstock, you are deeply involved in digital ethics. What is digital ethics about? Digital ethics is a fairly new term. Basically it is the logical consequence of technological …
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Mission: Colonization of space. Part I (44/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book Another important aspect of Terraism is to give people a unifying goal. Something they can talk to each …
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What you can learn now from visionary entrepreneurs (2)
Illustration by Yohanes Fitri, text by Jörg Puma How do we successfully emerge from the crisis? The examples of KRONES, BioNTech and Tesla in the previous blog post (link), showed how important enthusiasm is for …
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Committee for the pursuit of happiness. Part II. (43/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book In my last blog post I highlighted, that for many the pursuit for happiness will take the form …
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An Empathic World View Transfigures into Literature – who is Christian Much?
Christian Much was born in Luxembourg in 1953. Socialized as a European cosmopolitan, he spent his school years in Luxembourg and Brussels. After studying law and ethnology in Germany, he worked in 14 countries between …
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Rethinking Europe: The Realistic Utopia, The Other Branch
Text and book Christian Much/ Illustration Corinna Heumann Political utopias inspire all eras. Alongside the better-known ones such as Plato’s State, Thomas More’s Utopia, George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, some have …
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The one who reinvented the wheel: Who is Andrea Mocellin?
Interview by Susanne Gold Andrea Mocellin develops new ways of getting around – including air taxis and arguably the most innovative wheel of our time. Andrea works as a Senior Product Designer at Lilium and …
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Committee for pursuit of happiness ( 42/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book The “Pursuit of Happiness” will be one of the central research and business areas of the future. We …
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Rebecca Minkoff: “Little Minkoff” A woman who shows that the basic problems of the fashion industry are not insoluble
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text by Paula Pröve We buy, buy, buy – and throw away: fast fashion is no longer a new topic. Many people are already aware of how harmful the production of many …
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Committee for artificial intelligence (41/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. We are still looking into areas in which a terraistic association could contribute in ensuring a cheerfull view …
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Symbol Politics or Dystopia de Luxe: Apple Trees, Climatology, Psychology
Illustration Corinna Heumann/ Text Frank Fremerey Do we need psychologists to confront the climate crisis? Is giving up vacation flights, T-bone steaks and plastic bags enough to stop global warming? When problems exceed our capacity …
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Committee for longevity (40/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. With the goal of securing a peaceful life on planet earth in mutual respect and with the aim …
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Geo-engineering Stopps the Climate Change
A text by Jörg Puma / Illustrated by Yohanes Fitri In a hundred years, life on our planet will be better. A comprehensive learning process has been triggered by catastrophes – as is usually the …
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DO’s and DONT’S: What you can learn now from visionary entrepreneurs
Illustrations Susanne Gold – Text Jörg Puma We never had so many perfect excuses: Sales down because of lower demand. Profit down because of external supply problems. Europe ordered too few vaccines. All true. But …
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Committee for genetically optimized organisms. Part V (39/52 -Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. In the last weeks we looked into opportunites in, timing of and motivation to create transgenetic human beings. …
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Committee for genetically optimized organisms. Part IV. (38/52 -Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. Why should a terraistic association perpare humanity for the coexistence with cyborgs or trasngenetic humans? Well, the pressure …
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Committee for genetically optimized organisms. Part III. (37/52 -Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. How are we preparing for a time when trasngenetic beings will live amongst us? In Part I and …
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Committee for genetically optimized organisms. Part II. (36/52 -Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. How are we preparing for a time when trasngenetic beings will live amongst us? In Part I last …
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Committee for genetically optimized organisms. Part I. (35/52 -Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. If we want to shape the future, we should stop waisting energy on ignoring the evident developments that …
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“We do not have the future in our hands”
On her weblog she calls herself Tona. Actually, her name is Waltraud. But Tona fits better with the Italian surname. Besides, her husband calls himself Tano. In her name, it is a simple letter reversal …
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Time and Coincidence? Clocks as a Means to Understand the World: Who is Hans-Peter Jäger?
In the tranquil town of Bad Honnef on the Rhine, Hans-Peter Jäger begins to take an interest in the big old grandfather clocks in his parents’ house as a teenager. When they stop, he is …
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Craftsmanship of Mechanical Watchmaking and Art Mechanics as UNESCO World Heritage
Text and image: Corinna Heumann ‘It shivers with love…’ – the mechanical heart of Olympia: Craftsmanship of Mechanical Watchmaking and Art Mechanics have recently been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of …
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Committee for cyborg technology. Part III. (34/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. In addition to creating supportive economic conditions, a fundamental ethical discussion on how to deal with Cyborgs is …
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Committee for cyborg technology. Part II. (33/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. Download the full book. Let’s make sure some dystopic science fiction movies do not bias us against man maschine combinations. They already …