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Category: Behavioral Economics, Co-Working, Mindset
After much talk about digital transformation back home in Europe, with little that has been achieved in the past few years, suddenly everyone is thrown into a digital crash course. Thanks to Coronavirus and curfews in place, both adults and children are learning how to use digital tools to work from home or attend virtual …
View PostCategory: Behavioral Economics, Government, Robot
How many people are living in the precariat, i.e. in precarious economic and financial situations, is relentlessly revealed by the measures that governments around the world are currently taking to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Curfews, forced closures of shops, restaurants and event venues, as well as border closures and travel bans, are massively …
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Category: VR/AR
A few years ago, a priend of mine in a theater play played the leading role of a widow whose husband had uploaded his brain to a computer chip before his death. With this he remained present in the lives of his wife and children long after his death. What the deceased had forgotten to …
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Category: Innovation, Portraits
Some innovation managers or lecturers who use the term “disruptive innovation” will not know it, but this term was coined by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. In my books, which have dealt a lot with innovation, disruption and human behavior, I have repeatedly referred to Christensen’s works and results. Each of his books was required reading …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence
Dec 5
If you find it difficult to define a term or a situation, the consideration and definition of the opposite can be helpful. In workshops with companies thinking about how to prepare for the future, the following questions provide many new approaches and insights: “What if we didn’t make money with our most important product?” or …
View PostCategory: Foresight Thinking, Silicon Valley, Visit
Nov 29
More than three years ago, the German newspaper Die Welt titled the visits of German board members to Silicon Valley with Alpha Animals On Safari. The managers let themselves be shown the future here, they adorn themselves with names like Facebook, Apple and Google and Silicon Valley has actually become something like the “Ballermann (and …
View PostCategory: Artificial Intelligence
If one believes the common narrative in the media, Hollywood films and today’s popular science literature, then artificial intelligence (AI) will lead us into the apocalypse. The Terminator and Superintelligence will soon destroy us or at least enslave us all. AI will be smarter than us, and with it we will have created our last …
View PostCategory: Artificial Intelligence
Oct 28
Artificial Intelligence will kill us! If you listen to the unusual alliance of famous scientists, philosophers, and company founders then AI is the biggest threat to humanity since nuclear power. Stephen Hawking warned about the dangers right before his passing. Nick Bostrom, philosophy professor in Oxford and author of the opinion leading book Super Intelligence …
View PostCategory: Uncategorized
Oct 28
I was always fast. I was done with my studies faster than the minimum required time. I am writing my books pretty fast. And I am a fast walker. My co-walkers are quickly out of breath, but it seemed normal for me. I have always hated slow walking. The older I get, the more consciously …
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Category: Digital, Foresight Thinking
A number of talks and workshops took me the entire May to Europe. I even “had to” travel to France and Majorca. While I normally use trains, and for longer distance planes, this time I needed to rent cars, and that even three times. Twice I got a Nissan Qashquai SUV, and once a luxurious …
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