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New Book – Now Available: From Coal to AI. From AI to Coal.
How the Future Shapes Our Lives – and How Our Lives Shape the Future. 64 pages in a pocket-sized format. That’s all it takes to explain the possibilities of the future—and how we can shape them. Or as Max puts it: “Sure, you could write 640 pages on the topic. But my idea was to create a book that everyone can carry in...
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SWR1 Leute – How We Can Shape the Future!
f we want to shape the future, we must think of it in a positive way—focusing on possibilities rather than pessimistic probabilities. And suddenly, we realize that retail, craftsmanship, and a new ethical framework in our society are the #NextBigThing. We realize that small and medium-sized cities and regions have enormous growth potential and that we can free ourselves from today’s industrial norms. Instead,...
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What makes a futurologist different from a future-researcher?
What is a Futurologist? Futurologists are not the same as future researchers!Future researchers try to predict the future using data, statistics, and forecasting models. Futurologists, on the other hand, come from practice and include far more parameters in their considerations. They analyze which narratives have shaped past developments and why. They compare this with current societal culture and geopolitical dynamics—and instead of probabilities, they analyze possibilities. In other words, they explore how we can actively shape the...
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New Keynote: 🎤 More Excellence, Less Panic.
How the Future Shapes Our Lives – and How We Shape the Future. 🌏 A look at the world today shows that shaping the future requires more than just technological innovation. It demands a geopolitical perspective, an understanding of technology’s real role, an awareness of which trends we truly need (if any), and answers to key questions: We have the chance to embrace excellence—a strategic approach that considers both our environment and global developments—and...
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Keynote: The future thinks differently
Starting today, digitization will transform our entire everyday life within the next 5-15 years. City centres will look different. Villages and smaller towns will have the chance to grow again, as more and more people will want to move to rural areas or small-/midsized towns. New digital metropolises may emerge in places that nobody thought possible. Of course, all this does not work automatically,...
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Keynote: The 17 areas of life in our future – and how they will change our lives.
When we talk about the future, we often talk about how everyday life will change. That means: on the one hand, we “only” have the new technology, but it will be used in all areas of our lives. So not only in our everyday life, in our profession or in individual areas, but in all 17 areas of life at the same time. This...
