Category: Publications

  • Help with your pathway to inner balance in the Smart Society? Explore Arianna Huffingtons initiative “Thrive Global” as a remedy

    Help with your pathway to inner balance in the Smart Society? Explore Arianna Huffingtons initiative “Thrive Global” as a remedy

    You have probably read loads of self improving literature such as Stephen R. Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People® or Edward de Bono, the author of The Six Thinking Hats even if I think for example Plato or Heidegger has more to give in terms of human purpose or thinking. What I really […]

  • How is AI impacting the usefulness of cameras including the privacy perspective?

    How is AI impacting the usefulness of cameras including the privacy perspective?

    Really good article about how the notion of a camera is changing with AI. I also appreciate that the privacy perspective is well covered. What I especially appreciate how the journalist Doug Chayka takes us from the futuristic perspective to actually testing two AI enabled cameras with the learnings we can draw already on today’s […]

  • The Winner takes it all in the Digital Capitalism – Good or Bad?

    The Winner takes it all in the Digital Capitalism – Good or Bad?

    Already in 2009 Digital Capitalism  (Networking the Global Market System – Dan Schiller – MIT Press, 1999) predicted the rise of a few US-based platform companies with scaring accuracy based upon an analysis of a number of structural aspects. The book is still very relevant and I thought it was a good start to reflect […]

  • Most innovative companies 2018

    Most innovative companies 2018

    Review of the Fast Company Top 50 Most Innovative Companies 2018 including the golden nuggets I picked The Fast Company, a modern type of media brand, with a focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design. So worth to subscribe to their newsletter. Has just released their top 50 most innovative companies 2018. I am […]

  • How big impact will AI have on our economy?

    Or is AI a new type of production factor in the economy? According to Accenture research we should start to see AI as a new production factor and they have 3 main arguments: AI is neither labor or capital but rather a hybrid between both and as automation is self improving it should not be […]