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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The future of sanctions?
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Are we all certifiable?
The condition of guilt – free will! It is not clear whether the concept of free will is merely an illusion. Reinhard Merkel – Denker, Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law remarks that …
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The world stands head and tails with Blockchain!
by Pavel Romanenko and Susanne Gold Blockchain is widely and controversially discussed because it brings nothing less than the potential for revolution. Intermediaries, control bodies and all kinds of settlement agencies could make them superfluous. …
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Empathy – a cognitive megatrend
Empathy is regarded as the tool par excellence for putting oneself in another person’s shoes. But – what is empathy and – is it really always good for us? Cognition researchers distinguish two types of …
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Flying – Utopia and the curse of man
Subjected to the weight of the body, man can feel no greater longing than when he sees the migration of birds in the sky setting out for unreachable distances. Air travel to distant countries and …
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It is normal to be different
A net story by Reingard Eberle A few weeks ago, I was visiting the maternity ward of our hospital My dear work colleague has born her first child on 18. 7. A son. The birth …
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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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A village with the luminosity of an urban utopia or possible reality?u
In the 70s it was utopia – the urbanization of the village: rural idyll and urban advantages in one. All the advantages of the city – work, entertainment and creative flair of the metropolis combined …
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The dream of a better life in the city – unbroken.
At the beginning of the last century, when a person imagined the city of the future, as this little picture from the Hamburg Postcard Museum shows, the cities had a different appearance than today. When …
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Shaping the future? An illusion!
Nobody can. In The Black Swan, the scientist Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows that unlikely events such as the invention of the Internet, reactor accidents and the Second World War occur more frequently than expected. What …
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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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Not only is intelligence artificial, but so is the holiday!
Artificial holiday worlds Today people have high expectations of their holidays. It should be the perfect mixture of comfortable ambience, impressions of the foreign, a little bit of sport and at the same time almost …
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Dealing with privacy – learning from the history of the potato
For some it is sacred, for others it is the same: privacy. Ever since the last Facebook scandal and the EU’s new data protection regulation, everyone is talking about it – our privacy. The world …
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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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Open Innovation – Many minds. Many ideas.
Solutions to the problems of the world – Opening up research Climate change, seas full of waste, dwindling energy sources, bee deaths, micropollutants in drinking water – our world is full of questions for which …
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The Line of Survival
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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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The effect of light – learning from biology for digitalisation
540 million years ago, numerous new species suddenly emerged explosively in the oceans. A spectacular accumulation of biological novelties. Within a few years, new life forms and body shapes, organs and strategies for attack and …
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Possibilism – a cognitive megatrend
Optimist or pessimist? Is the glass half full or half empty? A common philosopher’s joke is to answer it with the question, “What glass?” As crazy as it sounds – the division between optimism and …
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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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Cameroon: Joshua Osih plans better conditions for private investors
by Patricia Schmitz Cameroon’s economy is growing more slowly than sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. One reason for this lies in the still difficult political framework conditions in the country. But this could soon change. …
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Digital Payment: Developing country Germany – guest author contribution
by Patricia Schmitz Africa in miniature: rainforest, mountains, savannah, desert and endless coastlines – Cameroon offers maximum diversity to Africa travellers on an area of 475,442 km². Only very few people come here voluntarily. In …
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Let us be like water!
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Strange birds – great founders
There seems to be a curious consensus among the founders of successful companies: Almost all of them are weird tinkerers who have a “little something on the waffle”. It is unclear whether they were already …
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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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Utopia and research – Siamese twins
The utopia of everything Einstein revolutionized the whole of physics with the general and special theory of relativity. Inquiring mind, as he was, he chased another task. He wanted to put forward the theory of …
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The perfect invention
They don’t exist: The ingenious inventor and the one inspiring idea If you asked a child who invented the chocolate cake, they would answer “mom” without a doubt. How could it know how many heads …
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Netflix formation?
Digitisation has not arrived in knowledge transfer. Our schools teach as if we still had encyclopaedias as reference books A regrettable fact – our schools and universities are outdated. They are analog and one-dimensional. No …
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Surprise – resonance!
Most of you know what I do here and – who I am: I collect utopias, dreams and stories. I have advertised in various social media to send me fantasies about the “world in a …
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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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Time to renovate – money for things that are fun! From utopia to necessity
Almost all professions are confronted with robots and computers It is a fact that a large number of professions will disappear in the future. Not only the simple jobs – also the highly qualified ones! …
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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 …
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Small he stood there and looked at me – I knew him from somewhere – but where?
At first I thought he was a woman His expression was full of grace and beauty. He didn’t look like a person. He had more than two arms. Little man – great attention I had …
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Not a meeting place where people meet
Crowds of people are striving in different directions – they hurry past with their luggage. Towards the goal and immersed in her thoughts. Nobody stays – most want to move on quickly A train station …