Friday, October 6. 2017
2 x Stockholm
On the one hand the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (based in Stockholm, Sweden) awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm. On the other hand the academy awarded the Nobel Prize iin Physics 2017: Gravitational waves finally captured.
Tuesday, September 19. 2017
St. Petersburg & Washington D.C.
Industry 4.0, currently on everyone's minds, was defined in Wikipedia, whose owner is the Wikimedia Foundation (founded in St. Petersburg, Florida). On step further the buzzword artificial intelligence (Industry 5.0) was explained by Quartz, whose owner is Atlantic Media (founded in Boston, MA).
Tuesday, September 12. 2017
Vesanto & Hildesheim
2 book recommendations: On the one hand Leena Letholainen (born in Vesanto, Finland) wrote the thriller My First Murder. On the other Gunter Dueck (born in Hildesheim, Germany) published the non-fiction Aufbrechen! Warum wir eine Exzellenzgesellschaft werden müssen.
Tuesday, August 29. 2017
2 x Melbourne
The Company 2thinkhow (based in Melbounre, Australia) published the annual report about the most high-tech cities in the world. In 2017 the top 3 were: San Francisco, New York City and London. In comparison to the report 2016: San Francisco, London and New York City.
Tuesday, August 15. 2017
2 x New York City
Friday, June 23. 2017
Hannover & Karlsruhe & Lausanne
For the terrific technological progress there are some clichés. A story of the Technology Review (based in Hannover, Germany) examined the myth of the terrific progress. Aporpos progress: Scientists at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) succeeded at research about Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications.
Tuesday, May 30. 2017
Washington D.C. & San Francisco
On the one hand Sarah Halzack (living in Washington D.C.) asked: How a custom blazer in 90 minutes just might change the apparel business? On the other hand Tom Simonite (living in San Francisco, CA) asked: Why Google’s CEO is excited about automating artificial intelligence?
Tuesday, May 16. 2017
Seattle & San Francisco
My frist look went to Amazon Inc. (headquarterd in Seattle, WA): 20 years of Amazon meant 20 years of major disruptions. Secondly Brad Fritzpatrick ((living in San Francisco, CA) came into my focus, esp. his keynote at Open Source Convention: Half my life spent in open source.
Tuesday, April 25. 2017
Basel & Boston
On the one hand Kelly Clancy (living in Basel, Switzerland) explained survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break. On the other hand David Weinberger (living in Boston, MA) wrote an essay about our machines now have knowledge we’ll never understand.
Friday, April 7. 2017
London & Cincinnati
Tm Berrners-Lee (born in London, UK) won the ACM Turing Award 2016. He received the prize for its invention of the open World Wide Web. On the topic of openess Philip A. Foster (living in Cincinnati, OH) asked: Evolving toward openness: How to change the way you think and work.
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