Cover photo Vivian Haddad/ Interview Susanne Gold Professor Gerald Hüther is a neurobiologist and one of the best-known brain researchers in the German-speaking world. He is the author of numerous (popular) scientific publications and chairman …
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Autonomy for a better society: Interview with Professor Hüther (4)
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Always the right playlist? Whether cheerful or dreary days?
Text and illustration by Susanne Gold Spoilt for choice: the music selection on Spotify seems almost endless. Apparently, Spotify wants to help with the music selection – depending on the mood of the listener – …
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He who is committed to the diversity of living things. Who is Gerald Hüther?
Professor Gerald Hüther is a neurobiologist and chairman of the Academy for Potential Development. After studying biology, he completed a research degree and doctorate at the University of Leipzig. He completed his habilitation at the …
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“This world will be saved by laughter”
Text: Nina Beier Lockdown, exit restrictions, compulsory face masks – the coronavirus has turned our lives upside down in recent months. The following report was written before this very unusual time. A snapshot from times …
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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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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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Milking the blue cow
This historical expression originates from the west coast of Denmark and refers to the fact of living on the flotsam of the sea. After every major storm, the coastal dwellers once climbed over the sandy …
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“Great again”? No, thanks!
What will the historians of the future call our epoch? As the ages of reorganization? As the epoch of social hysteria or distorted perception? As incipient post-capitalism? Facts versus alternative facts We live in parallel …
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Money and luck: Not a dream team?
World trip, own workshop, dream house, commitment to a project without having to make a living or help other people: People’s dreams of happiness are as varied as they are themselves. Is it possible to …
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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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Did God die on the assembly line of capitalism?
On the way to the industrial age, the world seemed to have come apart at the seams: “God is dead” – announced Friedrich Nietzsche in 1883. The hell in the cities With the onset of …
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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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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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Working agile – but how?
It was not so long ago that employees did not have to think a lot. They were assigned tasks, which they completed according to priority. This world still exists – parallel to the newly emerging …
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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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Work 4.0 – but medieval in mind?
Before the invention of the steam engine was the age of the craft guilds. There was hardly a company where more than twenty people worked together. First large companies The exceptions were the companies that …
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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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What to do when life gives us grief?
Think positive! That’s a real battle cry of our time. Even in the case of strokes of fate, it is expected that one recognizes the added value of such a one as soon as possible …
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Rebellion of the rulers or grapes in winter?
For many of us born in the sixties or earlier, it was not common to be able to buy strawberries and grapes at Christmas. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, global supply …
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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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Trade unions: With new tasks to increase membership?
Are you a member of a workers’ association? Is there an organization that represents your interests? Probably not. In the past, trade unions were much more important than they are today At that time, when …
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Is man a machine capable of learning?
In our time, the question of whether a machine can become human is in the foreground. But- could humans be machines? Psycho-cybernetics is determined by the idea that the human body is a machine. Although …
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Climate change, population growth and scarcity of resources – what options do we have to secure our existence?
We have only one planet – our Earth! Mathematically one could therefore say that we live in a “closed system”. There are therefore only limited options for climate protection and for securing our existence on …
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Multitasking here, mindfulness there?
Multitasking – everywhere and nowhere Those who are dealing with different things at the same time share their attention. Mindfulness on the other hand is the focusing of attention. Those who practice mindfulness concentrate fully …
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Are we supposed to believe everything we think?
The voice in our head – is it the real us? Is it our subconscious that speaks to us and knows our true desires? No, it’s not our subconscious As early as the 1930s, the …
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Love – a learnable art?
Our culture of capitalism is regarded as the cause of many problems. Among other things, for our misconception of love. In capitalist culture, it is market value that counts! The value of an item is …
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Self-discipline?
How do self-disciplined people manage to win the battle against their7n inner bastard? Kentaro Fujita, who is researching self-discipline at Ohio State University, believes that they do not fight at all. They simply enjoy the …
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New economy – but old work?
Work today takes place in a completely new framework. It is not only becoming more flexible and self-determined, but also more insecure, believes US sociologist Richard Sennett. He believes that the new flexibility destroys the …
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Free will?
Every person should be allowed to follow his free will in order to develop his personality. That this free will exists at all is part of the basis of the philosophical school of thought of …
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The lie of the age of fake news!
Time and again we hear about fake news, our era is even called the “postfactual age”. The digital media are often cited as the reason for the beginning of this new era. Proof of this …
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Why work less?
The futurologist Horst Opaschowski puts forward the thesis that we used to be poor when we had no work. Today, on the other hand, we are poor even though we work. By that he means …
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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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Your other – secret – life.
We all lead it: a double life. Back in the realm of gravity – awakening. We wake up in the morning and it is as if we are returning from another world. Shadowy only we …
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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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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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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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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 …