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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Toys, not calculators!
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Renaissance of religions. Luck or burden?
The age of Manchester capitalism seems to be over: Workers are no longer fully exploited physically and psychologically. Modern man is free and secure. But – will it stay that way? Our living and working …
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Digitally stupid – Is digitization making us all shallow thinkers?
Modern man is above all one thing: absent-minded! In a time in which we are mostly digitally overstrained, one elementary question arises: Will our thinking become increasingly flattened by the Internet? How can we stay …
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How to finance the welfare state of tomorrow?
Good morning, Monday! Most of us go to work on this day of the week. That this could change is not new anymore. Experts predict that robot workers will be able to replace humans in …
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 …