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Category: Behavioral Economics, Digital, Foresight Thinking, Innovation
About seven thousand pages tightly scribbled with notes and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci have survived into modern times. Experts estimate that they count for a quarter of his total work, covering all known disciplines in science and the arts. His thirst for knowledge was so big, that he repeatedly got lost into new questions that came …
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A German technology magazine recently asked tech celebrities about the devices that they carry on business trips. The digital evangelist of one German car company mentioned his iPhone 6. What? iPhone 6 in 2018? Since then the iPhone 7, 8, X and Xs came out, with the latter ones including facial recognition. That European tech …
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Category: Space
Like many others I keep following SpaceX launches. Including the one one launch of the Falcon Heavy, that not only brought Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster on the way to Mars, but also brought us the synchronized double landing of the two first stages. Not a month goes by without another launch by SpaceX, with …
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Jun 28
Thank you for your interest in myself and my work. You probably already have heard about my books, read some of my blogs, or even watched some of my videos. Then you know what I do and what style I have. Highly appreciated! And yes, I am open in giving a talk, conducting a workshop, …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence
“Machines will be intelligent, when they can beat a human chess champion,” said some. And then it happened. IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. “Well, such machines are not really intelligent, they just use brute force computing power.” That’s what the critics responded, and pushed the definition of ‘intelligence’ one level higher. How …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence
When the borders, that separated the Western from the Eastern countries, nobody could imagine that the former Warsaw-Pact countries would lead the West in some technological fields. While some years later a cable-based telephone system would dominate and wireless cell phone systems be rather lacking, Hungary had the fastest GSM-network. Before the fall of the borders …
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Category: Innovation
Apr 23
Where tender branches are growing, trees seem to be the most sensitive. Some trees that are coming too close in forests avoid contact with their own. The canopy forms gaps between the tree crowns that look like capillary. This phenomena is not equally common among tree types. Beech and ash trees seem more sensitive than …
View PostCategory: Diversity, Silicon Valley
The last team that I had worked with until 2013 at my former employer SAP was composed of 13 members coming from 10 countries with as many languages. What at first may sound like a cacophony of characters and ideas, was exactly that. But at the same time this was one of the most productive …
View PostThe hysteria around Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and private user data is reaching its firs climax, and one might believe that we all had agreed to hand over our first borns to Mark Zuckerberg. But let;’s start from the beginning: Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm with an admittedly doubtful reputation, has – as have done …
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Category: Silicon Valley
When the automobile appeared around 1900, it was foreseeable that some people will lose their jobs. Carriage drivers, stable owners, carriage makers, or horse breeders weren’t required in those numbers anymore, or even not at all. Those professions almost disappeared. Instead, new jobs were created. Chauffeurs, mechanics, or construction workers building all those roads that …
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