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 …
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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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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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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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