Reportage by Paula Pröve, cover illustration Susanne Gold It started as a project for the university, the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. The task: integrate a natural fibre into any material. That …
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Bioplastics from Mexico: Changing the world with agave fibres.
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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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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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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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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, …