Text: Johanna Schlemmer, Fotos: Peter Wolff, Cora Schmelzer Mushrooms to eat? With pleasure. But mushrooms on your own skin? For many, a strange, even disgusting idea. Not for Cora Schmelzer. As a budding product designer, …
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Mushrooms on your skin!
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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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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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Fine furniture made of tropical wood without any overexploitation – is that possible?
Illustration Corinna Heumann, Text Bernhard Fischer Plant products without overexploitation of nature? “Ex Planta and In Vitro 2121: A glance at the clock – where is the dealer for the tropical woods? He should be …
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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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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 …
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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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Successful in old age: Late developer Artificial Intelligence!
Not everyone is born during a conference. He already! Why is he only successful with more than 50 years, our artificial colleague?
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Digitalization? An old hat!
FROM HELMUT BRESLER No discussion and no lecture can do without the current buzzword. The digital revolution or digital transformation is the focus of all topics. A new trend? Not at all. Water under the …
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Artificial intelligence: Will we soon live with robotic humans who are smarter than us?
Hardly any other field of computer science triggers as many emotions as “artificial intelligence”. Will machines one day have a consciousness? Will they be able to think like humans?” These are the questions of our …
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Quantum in LEDs – let there be light!
Cost-effective, efficient and durable – light-emitting diodes or LEDs for short have almost completely replaced conventional light bulbs. But what is behind the miracle lamps? Plain and simple: (quantum) physics! After we have dealt in …
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Pig brains revived! Is brain death reversible?
Our brain is a wonder of nature. The control center in our head makes us who we are: It controls our thinking, our movements, processes sensory impressions and regulates our basic body functions. Unfortunately, our …
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Alexa alone at home
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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A journey into the small universe: great quanta!
Wouldn’t it be fascinating to be in several places at once? In our everyday life this seems hard to imagine, and yet such effects occur on the scale of the smallest particles, the atoms and …
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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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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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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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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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Smart home and digital factory – how does it work?
Smart objects can be packaging, work pieces or even objects in every household. They have a digital memory in the form of a data storage device. This enables the connection of objects – which are …
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When is progress successful?
Per capita income has risen again this year. We do not seem to be happier people because of this. As early as 1974, the US economist Richard Easterlin first pointed out the paradoxical phenomenon that …
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The long waves of innovations
Inventions resemble the waves of the sea One idea triggers another. This is how the Russian socialist and revolutionary Nikolai Kondratjew found out at the beginning of the 20th century. Since he applied this principle …
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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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The future of sanctions?
I’m in the middle of Berlin, visiting a friend. History blows at every corner of this city. Berlin – Moabit Today a sought-after residential area in the middle of the city, poor working class district …
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Digital manipulation and human nature
Social life has changed. Digital communication has changed the structure and nature of our social relationships as well as our access to information and knowledge. Unless we live in seclusion as hermits, we can hardly …
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Utopias and innovations between hope and horror
In 1900, X-rays were a spectacular new technology. It enabled a fantasy from the land of utopias: Suddenly it was possible to make the previously invisible visible. This innovation was so extraordinary and fascinating that …
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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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Fishing 4.0: The digital fisherman for man and sea
Feeding the growing world population is one of the most burning issues of the future. Global population growth is challenging the food industry in an unprecedented way. While on the one hand the yields of …
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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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Sex & Property – The digitalization of crime and the future of policing
by Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger Cyberbullying, hacking and Hatespeech: Our world has changed. Already today there are crimes that we did not know a few years ago. New technologies are being developed at short intervals, which make …
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Digital vicious circle – Broken Web Circle
by Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger Wild West Internet? In 2010, the Chancellor stressed in a podcast that the Internet is not a lawless space. In early 2018, she repeated this statement again in another podcast. Only – …
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The Robopeut of my trust – artificial intelligence as a therapist
Facebook searched Videos and contributions with artificial intelligenceto find out if one of the users is attempting suicide. Discontinued model human therapist? If someone plans a suicide and Facebook notices this, the family or a …
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Criminology, criminology and cybercriminology? What is this and how do they differ?
By Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger Criminology and criminalistics are two different fields of activity Criminology does not deal with a single concrete criminal offence in order to convict a perpetrator – that is the task of criminology. …
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The one who didn’t believe in time travel – condolence for Stephen Hawking
The physicist, who died today, said he would only believe this when he met the first tourist from the future “The laws of physics have conspired to prevent macroscopic objects from travelling through time.” (Stephen …
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The Energy Utopia of the General Key – Perpetuum Mobile
Machines that produce energy instead of consuming it – the perpetuum mobile. The researcher who will one day create this device will hold the “master key to everything” in his hand Even before the age …
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The reality we know
What is truth? The question is as old as mankind itself. How do we know if we are and – what is true? How is human recognition possible? Many attempts were made to answer this …
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Worse than expected! What turkeys have in common with Fukushima
For the scientist Nicholas Naassim Taleb, the idea of predicting the future is insane. We have a “turkey problem.” Drawing conclusions from the past to the future because we cannot do otherwise Just as cheerful …
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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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People with masks – unmasking lies with a simple trick
There are many ways and reasons to lie. Some lies are born out of necessity, others out of image and even when the truth is too rude – even to the point of malicious and …
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To the limits of ethics: robot children for the desires of adults
THE JAPANESE COMPANY TROTTLA PRODUCES CHILD SEX ROBOTS AND ENJOYS WORLDWIDE DEMAND The sex dolls are meant to be an outlet for those who are attracted to children, according to Shin Takagi, the head of …