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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Interview with Jan Thomas
SINCE 2013, Jan Thomas, founder and CEO of NKF MEDIA, publishes the founder MAGAZINE “BERLIN VALLEY” and the STARTUP NEWSLETTER “VENTURE DAILY”. Once a year a top-class jury of digital experts, business and politics chooses …
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Interview with Petr Kirpeit
Petr Kirpeit is what you call a “Digital Native”: he was born in 1994. After working in the solar industry, he now works at AVF- Associaltion for Vertical Farming. His aim is nothing less than …
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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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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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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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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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Rome – The world in a hundred years
Illustration by Susanne Gold, Text by Aenne Barnard I’ve been to Rome before Well, I mean really, with hours of travelling, dust on your shoes and staying in a hotel. A stupid idea, because in …
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The world in a hundred years: Xyril
Illustration by Sharon Calman/ Text by Madeleine Blaschke Here and now You can see in their big and sad eyes that they were once awake and once bubbling with ideas and inspiration. Xyrill blows a …
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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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Interview mit Viney Lugani
VINEY LUGANI IS A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, NEUROLINGUIST, INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION TRAINER AS WELL AS OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST. HIS FOCUS IS ON COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH AND BUSINESS. Viney, has digitalisation changed the mental health of society? …
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The world in a hundred years – pessimist for safety’s sake
By Stefan Fröhling A statement – The world in a hundred years? At first this sounds to me – in mathematical naivety – like 3018 But it is “only” the year 2118 that is meant. …
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Interview with Michael Kleina
Michael Kleina is a trained retail salesman and organization programmer. Since 1995 he has been working as a consultant and is one of the “old hands” in digital business. You advise companies on their digital …
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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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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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The world in a hundred years – Life 50+ in “WG cubes
Illustration Annette von der Bey/ Text from Birgit Gebhard Bea wakes up in her old age flat In the shared flat 12 people over 50 years of age live in several flexible living cubes. It …
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The return of the insects – the world in a hundred years
by Susanne Große-Venhaus What remained was love How did it come about? The insects buzzed together, this time a hornet was in charge of the World Insect Conference. The insects are happy Happy – and …
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School of Wilderness – The world in a hundred years
By Silvia Schanze It is the year 2118 Peace has come to many parts of the world. Nobody dared to believe that this was possible! The origin of all this was a small school in …
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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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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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Interview with Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger
Thomas-Gabriel Ruediger is a criminologist and expert on cybercrime How does the threat in digital space differ from physical crime? How do you assess the threat posed by cybercrime to society as a whole? There …
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The world in a hundred years: Spiritual contraception and souls with a plan
Illustration by Sharon Calman / Text by Stephanie Hakel Marie lies relaxed in the bathtub As relaxed as she can be at this moment. She breathes deeply, feels the next contraction coming. She goes under …
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With Sarah on Utopia Planitia – The world in a hundred years
by Dominic Eberle The last REM phase ended The metallic taste of the night still stuck to his tongue. He should probably postpone the nightly boxing training with sparring partner in the Klartraum for a …
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Work 4.0 – the shoe pinches!
Like a pair of kids’ shoes that have gotten too small. Work in Germany Technology has changed our everyday life rapidly Our media consumption, our products – everything has been revolutionized by digitalization. The 20th …
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Interview with Joshua Osih – Cameroon’s silent hope
by Patricia Schmitz Joshua Osih could become the next president of Cameroon. But who is the man who wants to change the torn country after 36 years of Paul Biya? What plans does he have …
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The world in a hundred years – “The obsolete man”
by Eva Ihnenfeld Freia wakes up – 10.00 Your meeting with the other social artists is at 2:00. She still has time. It’s quiet outside. She looks out the window. Some people are on the …
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Destitute after the great flood – the world in a hundred years
by Mirjam Usbeck It’s getting brighter We write February 23, 2118 This morning I read in the memories of my great-grandmother, after whom I was named, how she envisioned the world in 100 years. Strange, …
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The great forgetting – The world in a hundred years
by Isabelle Reiff 2018 was the time Shift in the shaft, the last spade fell, coal mining in the Ruhr area was stopped for good. “At last,” thought those who paid a pittance to pump …
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Children of the new age – The world in a hundred years
by Gwynnefer Kinne Children of the new age Joytopia and Free meet freely, awake, close and honest. They already met at school. From the very first moment they felt this glow between them. No, actually …
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Old woman under water – The world in a hundred years
by Reingard Eberle It is the year 2118 In the last 100 years, mankind has overexploited our world. Global warming has caused all the glaciers to melt, the sea level has risen by a few …
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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 Oligarchs and Aunt Minerva – The world in a hundred years
by Sabrina Neumann Ariel holding his drink in his hand If he cannot turn it off, the transparent structure that forms the sparkling juice would simply dissolve. He watches the gyrocopters landing on the greenfield …
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The last hour at the headquarters of Sankt Oswald – the world in a hundred years
by Gerhard Zirkel Sankt Oswald – 15.03.2118 X-IA Headquarters With an easy step he left the entrance door and walked the few meters through the tunnel to his EUV. It was only a few meters …
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The world in a hundred years – day trips with the “Sternencenter
Illustration by Susanne Gold, Text by Petra Höberl Slept late, I loll about in my wonderfully soft bed A glorious day is in store. Outside the birds are already chirping. Quickly I get up and …