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Category: Robot
Robots dive into every aspect of life and replace humans. Literally. This week I visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and watched a demonstration of a diving robot, which was developed to operated below water surfaces. His task is to help with archeological and scientific research, but also maintain and service under water infrastructure such …
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Category: Design Thinking, Foresight Thinking, Innovation
Experts and futurists love telling what the future will bring. Often a lot of money is made with those predictions, but they rarely become reality. We still have no flying cars, but 140 character tweets, as the investor Peter Thiel once stated. Also the attention grabbing predictions of the Club of Rome about the limits …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Organisation
Products in a supermarket are not randomly selected and shelved. Beer and chips are purposefully positioned side-by-side. Sweets are placed in the eye line of kids. High priced brands pay for having their products placed in easy to reach areas. Each inch on a shelve is carefully calculated to be filled with those products that …
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Category: Design Thinking
Design Thinking is not just something for adults on their search for new ideas to innovate in their companies, but can also be applied by children. Gigi Read, my former SAP-team-colleague has been conducting Design Thinking workshops for kids aged 10 and older for the past two years. What originally started as a short program …
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Category: Co-Working, Organisation, Venture Capital
Shared office and living space provider WeWork has raised another $260 million at an evaluation of $16.9 billion. The total money raised so far is at $690 million. WeWork offers offices, desks and virtual offices in over 200 cities globally. Startups and small businesses use the service, as those need office space but want to …
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Category: Automotive, Self-driving
This past Thursday I encountered this red Ford Fusion on Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. The car had two sensors attached to the top. It looks like these were camera-system that were operating, as light lights went on and off. Here is a video of the car that I took while driving: Any ideas what …
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Category: Innovation, Metrics
Clayton Christensen, Harvard-professor and author of the seminal book The Innovator’s dilemma, couldn’t foresee that within two decades a lot would change in how innovation unfolds. While in the past disruptive innovation and recessions only brought temporary job losses that were recovered within a few months, something fundamentally has changed. The economic crisis from 1992, …
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Category: Silicon Valley
It’s official: after many years of bugging visiting politicians and influencers from Austria, my home country opened a Consulate in San Francisco this month. In a joint effort, the Austrian Foreign Ministry and the Chamber of Commerce created Open Austria to connect companies and startups from Austria with Silicon Valley and its ecosystem. Over the …
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Category: Silicon Valley
A small backroom in a sex toy shop on Polk Street in San Francisco contains a real treasure of strange machines. Not far from the Austrian bar Leopold’s lays Good Vibrations, a franchise that Silicon-Valley-locals know. Life is more than just about technology and making a dent in the universe. The carefully lit backroom reveals …
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Say hello to Liam. He recently celebrated his first birthday. Not only is he a cutie-boy, he is also the last person to get a driver license. Impossible? Not in your lifetime? I admit: I don’t know, if Liam will be the last person to get a driver license. It also could be Sophia or …
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