Lena Reifenhäuser was born in 1986 in Troisdorf and lives in Bonn. In 2018 she graduated from the Alanus University of Art and Society in Alfterbei Bonn with a degree in Fine Arts with a …
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The unpredictability of life: Who is Lena Reifenhäuser?
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The future of education begins today – the world in a hundred years!
Illustration Cornelia Harss/ Text Birgit Wichmann What about education, how will it develop in 100 years? At present, teaching in schools takes place classically in the classroom. The students are in the same class level …
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Freedom and surveillance. The world in a hundred years.
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text Jörg Puma Life in 2121 years is different. There is an extensive freedom. However, it is restricted by extensive surveillance. But the freedom to choose a suitable home. – From the …
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The one who advocates ethical value creation: Who is Joerg Puma?
Jörg Puma was born in Augsburg in 1968. After his double degree in business administration and socio-economics, he earned his doctorate in the training department of Siemens AG on the subject of change architecture for …
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Artists at the Zoo – The world in a hundred years!
Illustration and text by Cornelia Harss Analogue painters will be rare zoo animals. In the year 2120 there will be no more brush-swinging artists. Painting will then be produced on the computer.
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Creativity as a driving force and means of criticism: Who is Cornelia Harss?
Cornelia Harss was born 1958 in Sigmaringen. Already as a child she painted and won prizes. She often made caricatures of her teachers at school. In her later life she continued to paint and caricature. …
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The one for whom political commitment counts: Who is Birgit Wichmann?
Birgit Wichmann was born in Moers in 1966. After her training as an industrial clerk and foreign language correspondent in a radio presentation, she already started writing. She worked for several years in Düsseldorf as …
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Waiting: A lockdown for more sense?
Illustration and text by Susanne Gold We are all waiting for the end of the pandemic – the end of the lockdown. Many feel as if they are sitting in a global waiting room and …
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Those with the tolerance for uncertainty who like to think about the future. Who is Rike Pätzold?
Rike Pätzold (born 1982) is passionately concerned with the topics of uncertainty and complexity and prefers to think about the future. Born in Munich, she shows others how to create security in uncertainty. She writes, …
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Not just a vocation: Who is Ella Priesnitz?
Ella Priesnitz was born 1988, lives and works in Munich. Not being able to commit oneself to just one calling and passion may sound like commitment phobia to some people, but for Ella Priesnitz it …
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Since the moon landing driven by insatiable curiosity: Who is Ulrich Eberl?
Dr. Ulrich Eberl (*1962 in Regensburg) has been one of the most renowned science and technology authors in Germany for more than 30 years. He received his doctorate in 1992 at the Technical University of …
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Two types of people and buildings that are slowly decaying: The world in a hundred years.
Illustration and text Annette von der Bey A hundred years from now, people will live on the layers of garbage with which we so diligently cover the earth. I think it is likely that after …
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We are stardust
Illustration and text by Susanne Gold The atoms in my body are ancient – old, like the stones of the world and the stars in the firmament. We can absorb and utilize the substances of …
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The improbable effect of fundamental physics – The world in a hundred years.
Text by Abdullah Almansouri The obvious is a world where machines and artificial intelligence become much more beneficial and widespread, all the way to the personal level. In fact, we started to have a flavor …
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Also, but not only for disabled people: Active without contact.
Illustration Angela Smets/ Text Susanne Gold In the 1974 film The Six Million Dollar Man, a man who was barely alive was reassembled. What was science fiction at the time is now increasingly reality. We …
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The game with all its traces, shadows and structures as inspiration – Who is Angela Smets?
Angela Smets was born 1965 in Bocholt, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. The all-round artist works as a graphic artist, designer, painter and illustrator. She holds creative workshops and …
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Fully automatic self-healing – the world in a hundred years
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Displayloop – the world in a hundred years
Illustration and text by Eugen Schramm For me there are two futures I am always working towards, a project completion in the foreseeable future and my artistic nature is a future that is not tangible …
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The perfectionist who is inspired by life: Eugen Schramm!
Eugen Schramm comes from the Russian Miasskoje (born 31.1.1979) and spent his childhood years in Schumowo, Moscow and finally in Anapa on the Black Sea. What drives you, Eugen? I am a very curious person …
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Editor and head of content: Susanne Gold
Trend researcher and futurologist, science journalist and founder of the future and science blog Utopiensammlerin. Born in the baby boom years, 1967 – in Hamburg, Germany. Social scientist. Mother. Wife. Daughter. Sister. Aunt. Consultant for …
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Editor and technical director: Kristina Sedmak.
Kristina has already studied computer science with a focus on online media, when most people didn’t really know what it was. She has many years of professional experience at Siemens AG and is also responsible …
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Sensitive as humans. Portable magnetic skin.
Illustration Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold A hand that delicately strokes the soft material of a piece of velvet, feels the landing of a butterfly or tenderly grips the hand of another: Feeling – …
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Art that stands for itself. Who is Annette von der Bey?
Annette von der Bey was born in Remscheid in 1965. She studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1990 she became one of Professor Fritz Schwegler’s Meisterschüler. Since then she has been working on …
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The one who uses his passion for a better life: Abdullah Almansouri!
Abdullah Almansouri was born in 1990 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is a PhD student in electrical engineering. He received his bachelor’s degree with distinction from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He received his Master’s degree …
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The one who builds a bridge between research and industry – Ahmed Alfadhel
The researcher and entrepreneur Ahmed Alfadhel was born in 1987 in Alkhubar, Saudi Arabia. Today, Ahmed is an innovation enabler at the Research Products Development Company, a semi-public company in Saudi Arabia owned by the …
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Future: Yes or No?
Illustration Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold There is no nation, I see, no matter how fine and educated, how raw and ignorant, that does not believe that the future can be interpreted and that …
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COVID-19: Tired in 20 minutes!
Photo and text by Susanne Gold How will we be in a few weeks’ time, how will the people and nations, the trade and economy of the world feel? That is probably the question many …
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On and off – true and false!
Illustrations Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold 0 and 1 Most people know the binary system primarily in the context of computers and calculates in the decimal system. We have ten digits from 0 to …
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Looking for the moon inside her – Who is Sharon Calman?
Sharon Calman is an artist and healer from Bonn. Born 1980 in Siegburg, Germany, she developed painting and drawing as her way of expression already as a child. Also early in her life she had …
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The World Parliament – Policy 2.0?
Illustration Corinna Heumann / Text Susanne Gold The nation state – an obsolescent model? Will Web 2.0 and social networks change world politics? The Internet has made our world transparent, just as the Cambrian explosion …
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‘Paradise 4.0’ – In 100 years, we’ll be controlling everything with our minds.
by Corinna Heumann The technology behind it is no longer visible. We can only guess at it. We only move for sport and fun. The symbol for this is the apple from the tree of …
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The age of robots – the world in 100 years.
Illustration by Susanne Gold / Text by Mikkel Loose In 100 years, we will live in the time of robots. Robots will be used in all possible ways to make people’s lives easier and more …
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Pandemic – danger and possibility!
Against the backdrop of the global challenge of the current coronavirus, it seems strange that we have taken it for granted that our lives would stay the way they are forever and that we are …
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Completely without human labour: writing books and acting?
Printed science fiction novels that no one wrote? A bookstore where not a single person works? Celebrating books about which no human forehead has ever been occupied with content, design or price calculation? A …
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Mikkel Loose – The one who pushes the limits of technology for what really counts: fun!
Mikkel Loose is a recently graduated Data Scientist with a MSc in Computer Science specialized in Natural Language Processing. He is currently looking for new fun projects centered around AI. Being born in the small …
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The creative technologist for whom the inner child counts. Who is Andreas Refsgaard?
Andreas Refsgaard was born 1985 in Denmark, is an artist and creative programmer based in Copenhagen. Anderas uses algorithms and machine learning to enable people to play music using only eye movements and facial gestures, …
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She who drives beauty, truth and love – Corinna Heumann!
Portrait by Dennis Divinagracia/ Text by Susanne Gold After studying law, Corinna Heumann studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC and at the Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art in New …
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Holy trees – the world in a hundred years
Illustration by Sharon Calman /Text by Sabine Kunz If you look closely, you can still see notches in my weathered ancient trunk. I think they were letters and a heart. That was a long time …
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Coach with whispering stories – Sabine Kunz
Sabine Kunz, born 1967 in Kassel, Germany, is the face and voice behind whispering stories. For many years she worked with passion in the pharmaceutical and commercial sector. But her heart beats for children and …
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Toys, not calculators!
The time when only the simple activities were automated is a thing of the past. Today, artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into classical knowledge work. The highly qualified jobs of well-educated people are …