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Ein Schwimmring für die Datenflut
Das ist wahre Größe! Es vergeht kein Tag, an dem nicht irgendein Kulturpessimist über die Datenflut schwadroniert, in der die Menschen einzeln oder kollektiv zu ertrinken drohen. Big Data ist unser...
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Facebook und die Gedankenfreiheit
…aber Facebook kann sie erraten! Also doch: Orwell hatte Recht! Sein Albtraum von der „Gedankenkontrolle“ ist Wirklichkeit geworden, die bösen Macher von Facebook sind dabei, unsere Gehirne...
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Grabrede für meinen besten Freund
Thanks for everything, dude: om namo narayan! Ossi war mein bester Freund. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich sein bester Freund war. Das mit den Freunden ist im Zeitalter von Facebook ja etwas schwierig geworden....
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The Digital Future is on display in Lisbon
Next week I will be in Lisbon talking to a couple of hundred employees, partners and guests of Sonae, a multi-billion dollar corporation with roots in retailing and telecommunications. A highly...
View ArticleWhy we need a new, a Digital Enlightment
“The huge expansion of knowledge in our times and the rise of new sciences hardly allow us to discover the truth and put it to use”. Lawrence Durell: Justine, 1957 It has become fashionable to blame...
View ArticleTen ways Digital Enlightenment will change us and the world around us
In Chapter 1 of our book “Digital Enlightenment”, Ossi and I establish ten basic forces of change in the Digital Age and how we as individuals and as a society will need to adapt in order continue to...
View ArticleThe history and future of networking
Since the Internet has become the first truly global (multi) medium the world has ever known, the concept of our having an “online life” as opposed to our regular, everyday lives has become so...
View ArticleWhat the spider teaches us
The history of networking is apparently more closely related to the history of ideas than it is to the development of technology. And in fact the investor of the Word Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, was...
View ArticleThe Internet is just the beginning
Like the Upanishad philosophers and Pythagoras of Samos, we too today face a new phase in the development of mankind, a new epoch that calls for a new way of thinking, this time driven by globalization...
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Thinking in real time
How fast things are changing… If Digital Enlightenment presupposes a new way of thinking which can supply the necessary terms of reference and categories to put them in, then what is required to make...
View ArticleWhy Digital Natives are not a new generation
When the protagonists of the new digital millennium talk about “digital natives”, they aren’t really referring to a “generation” at all; what they mean is a group of people who have already made...
View ArticleHow digitalization changes our perceptions (of the world and of ourselves)
Knowledge in this world has less and less to do with specialist expertise, or, as Guardian author Mercedes Bunz notes in her beautiful book “The Silent Revolution”: “knowledge tends to swarm all over”...
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Why “multitasking trauma” is just a myth
The housewife’s work is never done. Neither is that of the Internet user In Kevin Kelly’s scenario, the “technicum” takes over the role of awareness as a kind of a technical perception, a new dimension...
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How digitalization and networking are changing us
And how are you? The Internet changes everything, so why not its users, too? It is this aspect of digital acceleration and change that cultural pessimists hate the most. Yet in fact it would be...
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Living at Internet speed
This blog post is also available as a podcast that I recorded myself I feel the need, the need for speed! In “Behind the Looking Glass”, Lewis Carrol’s charming little book for children of all ages,...
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Evolution in fast-forward
This chapter is available as an audio podcast I recorded myself. …so what’s next? Humans have always lived in symbiosis with their tools. By inventing more and more sophisticated and intelligent tools,...
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Digitalization moves markets
This becomes self-apparent if we consider the single biggest “megatrend” of the past decades, namely digitalization. Everything that can be digitized will be digitized, as we will explain later. The...
View ArticleTen ways Digital Enlightenment will change us and the world around us
In Chapter 1 of our book “Digital Enlightenment”, Ossi and I establish ten basic forces of change in the Digital Age and how we as individuals and as a society will need to adapt in order continue to...
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Everybody’s gone surfin’
Where’s the beach? There seems to be a correlation between the willingness of an individual to deal with things digital and one’s age (or better: one’s stage of development). An annual study...
View ArticleTen ways Digital Enlightenment will change us and the world around us
In Chapter 1 of our book “Digital Enlightenment”, Ossi and I establish ten basic forces of change in the Digital Age and how we as individuals and as a society will need to adapt in order continue to...
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