by Leonie Bachmaier What does my Alexa do when she’s alone? While an apartment owner near Hamburg was not at home, his virtual assistant “Alexa” caused a lot of trouble. She threw a party without …
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Alexa alone at home
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Fascinated by diversity and networking – Who is Leonie Bachmaier?
Leonie is a native of Munich born in 1998. She studies “international business communication” in Munich and is a working student in the corporate communications department of Siemens AG. Her next stop will be a …
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The one where the imagination does somersaults: Who is Ulrike Parthen?
Ulrike Parthen, kick-off Christmas Eve 1968, source of ideas tapped for the first time at the age of 10 – her German teacher at the time was so surprised. As a result, she put a …
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Money and luck: Not a dream team?
World trip, own workshop, dream house, commitment to a project without having to make a living or help other people: People’s dreams of happiness are as varied as they are themselves. Is it possible to …
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Who’s Nina Beier?
Nina is a physics student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and works as a freelance journalist. Before she moved to Munich for her master’s degree in autumn 2018, she studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. Nina …
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Unconditional basic income: Utopia becomes reality!
Because robotics and artificial intelligence will take over more and more jobs in the future, the unconditional basic income has become one of the great utopias of our time. While our policy is not …
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Renaissance of religions. Luck or burden?
The age of Manchester capitalism seems to be over: Workers are no longer fully exploited physically and psychologically. Modern man is free and secure. But – will it stay that way? Our living and working …
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Did God die on the assembly line of capitalism?
On the way to the industrial age, the world seemed to have come apart at the seams: “God is dead” – announced Friedrich Nietzsche in 1883. The hell in the cities With the onset of …
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The one who understands new learning: Leo Marose – Biography
Leo Marose, born in 1988, has already done a lot: First, he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden and studied “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” at Bond …
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Exciting learning – in places where German schools could do the school bench: The StartUp Stackfuel!
In 2011, Sebastian Thrun, Professor at Stanford University and Vice President at Google, introduced his course “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” to the Internet. The computer scientist and robotics specialist had a utopia: that of democratising …
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The voices in our head and the stars in the sky – is everything we have learned wrong?
Measurements prove that only what passes through the filters in our brain can penetrate our consciousness. Only when synchronously firing nerve cells react to an object in our field of vision does a reality appear …
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We’re all gonna die! What can we do?
Man is no exception! Every living thing ages and will die. Nevertheless, it seems as if people have a special place in nature – because they are aware of their transience. We meet our death …
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Interview with Heiner Monheim
Heiner Monheim is a geographer, urban planner, traffic expert, professor of applied geography, border crosser between science and practice, utopian and fighter for more liveable cities. Mr Monheim, you have long been committed to …
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Finding housing and building land – An app is to help communities
Carl is standing in front of a house with smashed windows. While he takes a photo of the building with his tablet, he wonders who this house may have once housed. From the road that …
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The one who helps the cities and communities. Who is Stefan Müller-Schleipen?
Stefan Müller-Schleipen is managing partner of Immovativ GmbH. There he is in charge of digital urban development and international expansion. Born in Hanover, he began his professional career as a Lufthansa pilot and held various …
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Interview with Gunter Dueck
Gunter Dueck is a lateral thinker who is also called “Wild Duck”, or “Wilddueck”, by some people. He interferes, comments and asks many questions. After studying mathematics and business administration, he worked for five years …
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Who is Heiner Monheim? Biography
Heiner Monheim is a geographer, urban planner, traffic expert and crossover artist between science and practice. Since 1995 he has been Professor of Applied Geography, Spatial Development and Regional Planning at the University of Trier, …
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Who is Gunter Dueck? Biography
Gunter Dueck is a lateral thinker who is also called “Wild Duck”, or “Wilddueck”, by some people. He interferes, comments and asks many questions. After studying mathematics and business administration, he worked for five years …
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Contact exchange – bull’s eye heart. A future for love!
from Marten Steppat Back in the day. In the search for the love of your life you try out many things. Andrea Holthaus registers for this purpose again on this day at the partner exchange. …
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Digitally stupid – Is digitization making us all shallow thinkers?
Modern man is above all one thing: absent-minded! In a time in which we are mostly digitally overstrained, one elementary question arises: Will our thinking become increasingly flattened by the Internet? How can we stay …
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Who is Friedrich Wegenstein? – Biography
Friedrich Wegenstein, born 1951 in Vienna, is a graduate in business administration. For more than 30 years he worked successfully as an independent consultant in the economy. During this time, due to his philosophical curiosity, …
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Scarce, valuable, economical – our way into the future – The world in a hundred years
by Friedrich Wegenstein My utopia does not have a hundred years, but challenges us here and now. In the spirit of Kant, it challenges us to free ourselves from self-inflicted immaturity and to take responsibility …
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Who is Ralf Gawel? Biography
Ralf Gawel, born 1954 in Salzgitter Bad, worked for many years as a production manager in the music touring sector. Over three decades ago he emigrated to the USA. There he first worked in New …
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The world in a hundred years – humanity has a child!
by Ralf Gawel There is a huge hype about artificial intelligence – every day we see and read new stories And justifiably so! Because it is certain that AI will completely and permanently change our …
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A new category in my blog: Vision Company
Building a business requires courage, capital, the willingness to leave the comfort zone of a regulated life and a market that can be developed. What at first sounds banal often turns out to be a …
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Craft digitizer? Martin Urbanek! Biography
Martin Urbanek has set out to digitize German craftsmen. How? With a cloud software and App. But that’s not all – he’s already working on a multicloud solution that will link tradesmen together! Born 1975, …
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Laufzettel adé: Finally help for German craftsmen?
The little woman with the colourful apron has made up her mind: she wants a green living room. Only then, she says, would her lemon-yellow budgerigars feel really good. Master painter Wildung has to grin, …
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The fear of super-intelligence. Do machines get smarter than people?
The human brain stores and organizes information according to patterns and is thus the inspiration for artificial intelligence. In our brain, more than 100 billion nerve cells are connected, which store our knowledge in patterns, …
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Who’s Sue Doma? Biography
Sue Doma, born 1962, is a fitness trainer and hobby musician – with a focus on washboard and singing. Who am I? I am the only child of two very young hippies. For me this …
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Emergency stop 2069 – The world in a hundred years
from Sue Doma After mankind had wiped out and destroyed almost everything that was alive and essential for survival by the year 2069, an abrupt change of all nations and countries set in motion. Today, …
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Megatrend minimalism – what does the hermit crab teach us?
Yadokari is his name, he was born in Japan and likes to live by the water. The hermit crab always carries its house with it, is small, efficient and flexible. This makes him a symbol …
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Who’s Melanie Dorn? Biography
Melanie Dorn sees herself as an “emotion coach with a penchant for spirituality”. She sees it as her lifelong task to constantly develop herself professionally, personally and spiritually. She likes to do that on hikes …
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We are one we are Love – The world in a hundred years
Illustration Susanne Gold/ Text Melanie Dorn
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Who is Claudia Conen? Biography
Claudia Conen was born in Cologne in 1968. She has always been independent in her professional life. 14 years ago she decided to sell her gastronomy in order to dedicate herself intensively to the audible …
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In the glass train of time – the world in a hundred years
Illustration by Sharon Calman /Text by Claudia Conen It is a day in January 2019 – I love life in the here and now There’s a transparent train I get on. I can see everything …
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Privacy Paradox: Do we want privacy or not?
Online, many of us disclose our data, communicate via social media, use dating portals and payback cards relatively carefree. When travelling on the net, many people seem to be indifferent to the fact that they …
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Social justice – just a ghost?
The poor get poorer, the rich get richer: A study by the Hans Böckler Foundation showed that the salary gap between top managers and employees in the 30 Dax corporations continues to widen. Comparing the …
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Working agile – but how?
It was not so long ago that employees did not have to think a lot. They were assigned tasks, which they completed according to priority. This world still exists – parallel to the newly emerging …
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Do robots write song lyrics?
Robots as journalists He who writes, stays! For a long time, the idea was held that man could retain sovereignty over the word and thus his secure job. Natural language was believed to be a …
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New Year’s Eve in a hundred years