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No fear of the future!

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No fear of the future! Probably the most entertaining insight into the future, understandable for everyone. Max explains how the future actually works, why we sometimes panic (but don’t have to) and who actually shapes our future. He takes a trip into the world of intelligent refrigerators, new health care systems, smart technologies, self-driving cars in smart cities and wondrous developments promised for our smart everyday life. He brings all this “smartness” together in an understandable way and shows us why the digital revolution will not overwhelm us in the end, but rather why it offers us all prospective opportunities. Keynote / Show – 45/90 min Cal Max as Speaker or Moderator anfragen@maxthinius.de Via VoiceBox: +49 30 6130 90 41   welcome@maxthinius.de Photo by Hendrik Haase  

With Deutsche Bahn into the future

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I don’t mind admitting it: I take the train. A lot. I’d like that. Right now, for example: just before Hannover, with a wonderful view of an avenue between fields. I can think well. About the future, about our life 4.0. And again and again I notice how big the difference between fiction and truth is in this topic. What is important: we need to talk about the future. And the possibilities that lie ahead. The opportunities. The prospects. These are far more than the risks. Yet they dominate the discussion. There is a great variety of positive possibilities: in everyday life, health, ageing, economy, justice – but we can only make use of all these great opportunities if we deal with them. Otherwise others will do so. And they serve us ready-made solutions. Whether they suit us then or not. So it’s better to think for yourself and look positively into the future – and do so. Just do it. I have not only thought a few short inspirations “in” the railway, but also …

More hipsters for future!

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When we talk about digitalisation today, we are talking about technology first and foremost. There is a lot of talk about artificial intelligence. Before that it was Blockchain. The 3-D printer’s been around a while. But algorithms that are actually found everywhere in the digital world are currently repositioning themselves. Nobody talks about hipsters! Hipsters in particular, like the hippies of yore, are the drivers of change. Totally nonconformist they show us how it works differently. They take us into the future. They try things out, take no account of existing structures. No matter if they have a beard or not – and yes, they have reinvented coffee (you know, a little more sour, more aromatic, handbrew and not quite so hot, but guaranteed by sustainable plantations). And that’s exactly why we need them! To bring digital “solutions” into our society that fit the new structures made possible by digitalization. Because the hipsters turn technology into solutions. Applications that we humans need (or sometimes don’t need), but which are in any case tangible – they …

How we will learn and work in the future – my son and I.

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Everyone should have the right to have their own algorithm! How could and should we actually learn? Today and in the future! And how to work? What does NewWork mean and how could our life as a whole change? My son Emilio and I have done an experiment together with the educational podcast TabulaRasa. (Links to the podcast – at the bottom please) We talked about education. But not only from my perspective, but also from my son’s perspective. Who’s in the middle of it. At the time of the podcast he was 17 and in 12th grade at the Evangelische Schule Berlin Zentrum ESCZB in Berlin. Once built by the great education revolutionary Margret Rasfeld, today still a great school. Nevertheless Emilio has a clear view of the whole school system. Who could say more about education today than a student He feels, like many other students, that this system is no longer right at the back and front. That there is learning for something that is no longer needed in reality. That teaching …

Machines to power!

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For my dear colleagues Friedrich & Weik, I have written an important chapter in their new bestseller as a guest author. – and made a lecture out of it. We live here on this planet for thousands of years and all of a sudden machines come, say they have artificial intelligence and take over! Is that so? Or are machines perhaps even necessary so that we humans can continue to live on this planet for thousands of years? Can we even do without machines? The new complexity of the world. Can we still absorb it without support? We use algorithms from Facebook, Amazon, Google and others as a matter of course. But no one is asking themselves the question: shouldn’t we actually have a right to our own personal algorithm? An algorithm that advises us in everyday life? An algorithm that at least reads our intentions and can therefore advise us better than an algorithm that only wants to sell? Should politicians perhaps be replaced by machines? Perhaps because they no longer have an overview …

A day in the future

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To be very specific: what does a day in the future look like? Seven or 15 years from now. From getting up, through the day, into bed. What does a person experience? Which technology will he use? What skills will he need? How will social, economic and political conditions change? One cannot dive more concretely into the future: especially not in such a comparable way. Because everything is structured around a concrete daily routine, you can directly compare all new findings with your own everyday life and draw conclusions. And to make it even easier, you can experience this lecture with different focal points. All of them are based on a fundamental scenario of social development. Industry focus can be: General everyday life, agriculture, automotive, education, finance, society, commerce in general (online, offline), real estate, consumer goods industry, food, ministries, fashion, NewWork, politics, regions, urban development, telecommunications, entrepreneurship, business in general, and more are possible. Keynote / Show – 60 min Requests to Max as speaker or moderator anfragen@maxthinius.de Via VoiceBox: +49 30 6130 90 41 …

Bestselling Book

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Max Thinius – Futurologist, bestselling author, moderator, is considered one of Europe’s leading futurologists with a focus on society, sustainability, business and trade. Why it was important to me to write the new book by Friedrich & Weik! We need a positive view of the future – urgently! You know what? It bothers me if we discuss all topics in the present only negatively today. Where have our positive goals gone? When I was growing up, we had goals like: to revolutionize society in a positive way, to reduce the East-West tensions, to bring about reunification, social equality … Today we focus our attention mainly on crises. There is the refugee crisis, there is the climate crisis, there is the economic crisis, there is the social crisis, the populist crisis. It’s not that none of this is there, but the focus is not on positive solutions, but on the problems. So why don’t we talk about a social development and promotion programme to develop new perspectives (instead of refugee crisis), why not promote sustainable social …

Guide 4.0 – How to make the best of your future

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The presenter Nico Gutjahr and the futurologist Max Thinius talk about (and with) people. And about the future. And how that comes together. The first signpost that clearly says what is coming, how it will be and how you can really shape the future for yourself. And the two of them provide answers to the most burning questions that no one else answers: How will our society live tomorrow and what do we need to know? What will happen with work, life, love and our everyday life? How will the future and digitalization change our thinking? What do we have to learn anew? Can we even manage that? Or will all this create artificial intelligence for us? What do I still get out of life? A lot! A very lot! That is the short and positive answer. Nico and Max give a precise guide 4.0 with clear scenarios of the future in their presentation. “At last, two of us can talk to humans!” No technical jargon or artificially inflated horror scenarios. Instead, they tell us …

The future is gentle!

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Why gentleman and gentlewoman are so important for shaping our future. The Gentleman & the Gentlewoman of today and their new competences to shape the future of the digital era in economy, society and politics. A 90 minute experience after which you encounter the world, the future, the economy, politics and society with different eyes, different attitudes and different ideas. It is perhaps the most entertaining way to understand the reorganization of the world: Ato & Max “The gentle Pack” explain how the digital cultural change not only changes our everyday life, work, economy and politics, but also how we humans have to rethink and develop new values in order to be able to use the opportunities of the new age in the interest of ourselves and society. The gentleman is at the centre of this – and yes, he goes hand in hand with the gentlewoman. They will be the ones who create new perspectives. To describe and live the educational systems, legislation and social structures in a new way. And everyone can become …

Feared of digital money?

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Most people in Germany love cash. 88%, to be exact, prefer to pay cash rather than by card. Only from amounts of 50€ upwards does the cashless willingness to pay increase. But will we still be able to pay with cash in the future? Or will we even need a digital currency (colloquially called crypto currency)? Sweden has set itself the target of no longer accepting cash from the 2030s onwards. Digital money is not yet that, just the cashless form of today’s currency. Real digital money works completely differently. And here most people are still afraid today. At least worry or incomprehension. Digital currency could offer new perspectives for fair global coexistence. Incidentally, it would not even have to be traceable, which is the biggest concern of cash fans. The other way round: CAN there even be a future for the economy and society without digital money? In the interview with the Wirtschaftswerkstatt you will find a few thoughts that shed light on the various perspectives and opportunities. Wer neue Ideen für die Zukunft …