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Agents, avatars and anonymity

Our traditional way of thinking about privacy and intimacy no longer serve any meaningful purpose in a digitally networked world, so what’s the alternative? What could replace it? There are several likely candidates. One is the concept of “digital discretion” … Weiterlesen

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Going Public

We need to remind ourselves from time to time that privacy and secrecy are not the normal human condition. In fact, privacy is an invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. The rising middle-classes suddenly found themselves wealthy enough to … Weiterlesen

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Generation Now!

The pace set by digitalization and networking, the one that so many of us have problems keeping up with, has consequences for personality development , too. Common thinking has it that the best of our humanity is expressed through our … Weiterlesen

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Digitalization moves markets

This post is also available as an audio podcast I recorded earlier. Digitalization is surely the single biggest “megatrend” of the past decades. Everything that can be digitized will be digitized, as we will explain later. The reason is simple: … Weiterlesen

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Everybody’s gone surfin’

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 commissioned by the two German public broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, showed … Weiterlesen

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Evolution in fast-forward

This chapter is available as an audio podcast I recorded myself. Humans have always lived in symbiosis with their tools. By inventing more and more sophisticated and intelligent tools, mankind has changed itself and become smarter over time. This is … Weiterlesen

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Uber, Buzzfeed and the Future of Journalism

Newspapers are dying  – and so what else is new? New Orleans, a metropolis of some 380.000 and number 51 in the list of the largest US cities is without its own daily, since the Time-Picayune went online-only in May … Weiterlesen

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Living at Internet speed

This blog post is also available as a podcast that I recorded myself In “Behind the Looking Glass”, Lewis Carrol’s charming little book for children of all ages, the Red Queen takes Alice by the hand and pulls her away, … Weiterlesen

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How digitalization and networking are changing us

This entry is also available as an audio podcast that I recorded myself. The Internet changes everything, so why not its users, too? This is this aspect of digital acceleration and change that cultural pessimists hate the most. Yet in … Weiterlesen

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Ten 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 lead rich … Weiterlesen

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