The European Union is committed to ensuring that control over its citizens’ data remains in European hands and is not transferred to countries outside the EU. These efforts have resulted in a requirement that European citizens’ data must be stored … Continue reading Is Europe’s Data Sovereignty Just Wishful Thinking?
After less than 2 weeks I canceled my Humane AI Pin. It is an electronic device that is worn like a brooch and is connected to an AI. A bit like in Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise, where the logo on … Continue reading Humane AI Pin: Too early and too late at the same time OR Why I immediately scrapped it again
If you read the headlines and analyses of German-language media, Silicon Valley is dying and the technology companies there are at the end of their rope. The carnage of mass layoffs that have rocked these companies since late last year … Continue reading Bad or Good? Layoffs at Silicon Valley Tech Firms
Like many other companies in the transportation and travel industry, Germany’s flagship airline Lufthansa is struggling with the COVID 19 pandemic and the curfew and border closures that have been imposed. While the company was still doing well at the beginning of the year, it has turned into a restructuring case in just a few months (through no fault of its own). The collapsed stock market valuation forced the DAX to replace Lufthansa with another company, and this one is – Deutsche Wohnen. Deutsche Wohnen is currently valued at €14.6 billion, while Lufthansa only managed €5.2 billion, half of what … Continue reading DAX and the Innovation Dilemma: When Deutsche Wohnen Replaces Lufthansa
Some lectures and workshops brought me to Europe the whole month of May. I also “had” to go to France and Mallorca. While I usually use the train or the plane for longer distances, this time I also had a … Continue reading Between physical quality and digital necessity
Anyone traveling through the cities of Europe cannot avoid visiting literary cafés. Not only as a welcome break while sightseeing, but also to breathe in the air of literary greatness, history, anecdotes and bestsellers.
The Café Central in Vienna or the now finally closed Café Griensteidl are places where Friedrich Torberg, Peter Altenberg, Karl Kraus, Egon Erwin Kisch and Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote their literary works. Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek and a number of artists called Café Hawelka their home. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre spent time at the Café de Flore or Les Deux Magots in Paris. And Joanne K. Rowling allegedly wrote the first parts of Harry Potter in the Café Majestic in Porto. Continue reading “I am a Coffee House Writer”