“What am I supposed to do? I can’t follow him around all day … and grounding him would be a blessing for him. He disappears into the bathroom for hours … should I cut the …
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When the Brain Starts “Gaming”
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When the World Grinds to a Halt
The Silent Nervous System of the World The Middle East conflict reminds us of something that easily disappears in the background noise of everyday life: our world is alarmingly fragile. A closed airspace. A blocked …
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Good Blue Light – Bad Blue Light?
Life in a 24-Hour Rhythm For billions of years, life on Earth has followed a stable rhythm: a day lasts 24 hours, with light during the day and darkness at night. Almost all organisms—from bacteria …
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The Other Me in the Machine’s Mirror: How Deepfakes Are Redefining Our Understanding of Identity
Once upon a time, our face belonged to us alone. A strangely naive idea, in hindsight. Because what does “ownership” mean when something can be seen, photographed — and now perfectly imitated — by anyone? …
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Twins in the Digital Dimension: A Journey Through Two Mirror Worlds
Imagine two parallel universes: one where virtual worlds are created for spectacular experiences, and another where digital twins are used to optimize manufacturing industries. Both emerged from the same technological revolution—yet while the consumer mirror …
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Cybercrime: Who Falls Victim and Why?
Cybercrime: Who Falls Victim and Why? Cybercrime is the invisible threat of the digital age. It doesn’t just target companies and government agencies; increasingly, private individuals are also in the crosshairs. In 2023, police in …
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A History of Design and Fusion: From Tools to Human-Machine Interaction
Historically, the connection between humans and tools was straightforward: a hammer felt heavy, a saw demanded skill. The design of a tool was crucial to facilitate easier work. During this period, where tools served as …
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The Fusion of Art, Science, and the Business World – Who is Chris Tille?
Chris Tille is an artist with a creative and innovative project named “MindSculpt”. This project’s inception was sparked by the captivating idea of converting thoughts and emotions into physical art pieces. This unique form of …
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Cosmology, Complexity, and the Art of Risk Research: Who Is Rainer Sachs?
In a world increasingly defined by global-scale uncertainties, many people crave clarity and foresight. Assessing risks and safeguarding against the myriad dangers within a tightly interconnected global network presents a nearly Herculean task against the …
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Reinventing Art in the Age of AI: A Societal Challenge
In a world where algorithms tend to replicate the familiar and amplify the predictable, a similar trend is reflected in art. We see reproductions that mimic what already exists, instead of breaking new ground. If …
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From Medicine to Innovation: Alawi Swabury and the Vision of the Africa Battery Initiative
In the realm of science and development, ideas sometimes emerge that appear so utopian one might almost doubt their realization. Yet, the actualization of such ideas carries the potential to profoundly and transformatively change our …
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The Canvas in Flux: How Entertainment Moves the World
The fusion of pleasure and responsibility in new entertainment In a world dominated by technological advancements, entertainment has evolved to play a crucial role. It has the potential to be more than just an escape …
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Digital movement in politics: Europe gets a “digital wallet“
Illustration Corinna Heumann/ Text Susanne Gold The European Union (EU) is preparing for the digital era. The implementation of a standardized digital proof of identity, valid across the entire EU, is on the agenda and …
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Recycling revolution? Bio-upcycling & superworms that can eat through plastic waste!
A species of worm that has a taste for polystyrene could hold the key to large-scale plastic recycling, according to researchers at the University of Queensland. The common “superworm” known as Zophobas morio has been …
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The inventor of the dove of peace: Goddesses and Doormats
Spanish painter, printmaker and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, is widely regarded as one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. As the 50th anniversary of his passing on April 8th approaches, it begs the …
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Chat GPT: The world is upside down! And so am I.
Elon Musk wants a pause in development, Bill Gates doesn’t think it’s necessary. Never before has a technology attracted so much attention in such a short time as the Chat-GPT language model. In Italy, access …
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War over water – can we prevent it?
Drinking water is a precious commodity and is all too often taken for granted. Yet the war for water has long since begun. Freshwater is essential for our survival, but growing demand for water, climate …
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Sustainable or just strategy? H&M founds Looper Textile Co. with Remondis.
Written Fashion Reporter Paula Kiessling / Illustration: Susanne Gold H&M focuses on sustainability with Looper Textile Co.: Can the joint venture improve the fast fashion industry? H&M and Remondis establish Looper Textile Co. to increase recycling rate …
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Tomorrow’s Economy Becomes Personal: How Low Code and Edge Intelligence Revolutionize Industry
The future of manufacturing is on the brink of a revolution – driven by two new technologies: Low Code and Edge Intelligence. These technologies will be instrumental in making the way we produce goods more …
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Anxiety disorders in pupils and students: A chatbot to help?
Anxiety disorders are a growing problem among students. According to several studies from the USA, Great Britain and Australia, almost one third of the students surveyed have struggled with anxiety disorders in the course of …
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The secret price of automation that every entrepreneur should know
Text and Illustration by Susanne Gold Today, workers bring to the workplace a willingness to be lifelong learners. Never-ending training and being a student forever, that’s the price careerists pay today. Not every new tool …
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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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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 …