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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Career – all circus?
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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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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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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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Always the right playlist? Whether cheerful or dreary days?
Text and illustration by Susanne Gold Spoilt for choice: the music selection on Spotify seems almost endless. Apparently, Spotify wants to help with the music selection – depending on the mood of the listener – …
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Planet Earth and its Ruler: Is the Curtain Closing?
Cover photo Vivian Haddad /Text Susanne Gold Sad high – Humans are outcompeting nature for the first time. Everything we humans produce is referred to as “anthropogenic material” by experts. For the first time, there …
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World Health is in the Hands of Women
Illustration by Corinna Heumann/ Text by Ted Ganten, Susanne Gold, Corinna Heumann Setting the pace in terms of equality: World health is in the hands of women! Equal treatment of women and men makes societies more …
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Does Europe not just want to protect its data? Digital race!
Illustration and text Susanne Gold “European Alliance on Industrial Data and Cloud” is the name of the initiative for which the European Community intends to provide €10 billion. The size of this sum alone makes …
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Prologue: What is the purpose of “Terraism – a New Concept to Save the Planet”? (1/52 – Terraism)
Illustration by Susanne Gold/ text by Ted Ganten In this clip you will get more information on “Terraism”. It all started with the big bang 13.8 billion years ago The earth has existed for about …
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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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Artificial Intelligence: Are We All Going Stupid and Unemployed?
Illustration and Text by Susanne Gold Companies of all kinds today use artificial intelligence, to forecast demand, hire workers or meet customer needs to be identified. Artificial intelligence is a billion-dollar business. Google even …
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Two who set out to stand up to the online giants: My trolley!
by Thomas Bergmann Local trade is facing the biggest challenge in its history. Digitalization is creating completely new market and competitive structures and forcing retailers to develop new strategies. Due to the small size of …
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Homo Connectus: Do we need a global ethic?
“I can manage on my own!” – is anyone who says that sentence happy? You go on a world trip, but never speak a word to anyone on your way – are you happy then? …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why “Vision Company” in my utopia collector blog?
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How do marine researchers research?
One imagines that marine researchers are out at sea in all weathers. But today the oceans are explored with sophisticated technology. Marine researchers often sit in front of a computer – in front of digital …
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Your other – secret – life.
We all lead it: a double life. Back in the realm of gravity – awakening. We wake up in the morning and it is as if we are returning from another world. Shadowy only we …
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What is nudging?
A child is standing in front of the school on the first day of school and does not dare go in – the mother pushes the child together with the school bag easily and without …
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Explore unknown worlds and life forms with autonomous robots
One world in the world – microbes in the ocean They are almost everywhere and yet almost invisible. Microbes in the ocean probably spread and produce half of the oxygen in our atmosphere. It is …
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Digitization and digital transformation – what is that?
What is the difference between digitisation and digital transformation? Digitisation means that a work or workflow is made paperless. But without changing the workflow. An example of this is when the documents of an office …
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Thick potatoes instead of thick air – precision farming for smart farmers
Thick potatoes instead of thick air – digital agriculture Whether it is the ageing society of the industrialised nations or the boom of young people in the developing countries – everyone has to eat. …
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Digital democracy – the end of power and powerlessness
Today, individual citizens are not in a position to have a decisive influence on political debates. They relinquish their right to co-determination every four years with their ballot paper. Dissatisfaction with this is growing. The …
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More freedom! Now!
Slaves to our wishes We face an overwhelming variety of products. Everything we can buy, consume, consume and leave behind. Tragically, this does not make us free – on the contrary, it makes us slaves. …
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Faster than suicide – Stopping suicides with artificial intelligence?
10.000 people take their own lives in Germany every year Worldwide there are even more than 800,000 people a year. The World Health Organization (WHO) mentions this figure in its “World Suicide Report”. Every incredible …
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Why do we need urban development?
In 2050, almost ten billion people will be sharing our planet’s resources. In the industrialized nations, economic growth is stagnating and the population is aging. At the same time, in the developing countries, increasing numbers …