My phone, the brick
Over the holidays, I had quite an interesting experience: My smartphone was bricked. I hadn’t jailbroken it and screwed up along the way or anything. The only thing…
Category: digital divide
Umcomfortable Talk: Digital Disruption
Uncomfortable Talk #2: Digital Disruption – Third Wave Berlin from LHBS Consulting GmbH on Vimeo. Igor, Johannes and I were invited down to Vienna to give this talk…
Slides “Neue Medien – Fluch oder Segen”
The other day I visited Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) for a day to give a keynote speech and a workshop for FES stipends at the summer academy. (Full disclosure: paid…
Thoughts on the mainstreaming of openness
Disclaimer: I’m strongly biased towards openness. I prefer free and open software over closed systems, I prefer an open and decentralized web over a closed and centralized one.…
Study: Are Coworkers Poor?
Spoiler: not necessarily. They tend to be under-insured, but they don’t seem to mind. Christoph Fahle and I conducted a short study on social and financial security among…
ZDF Auslandsjournal: Coworking
ZDF Auslandsjournal did a piece on a team working at Betahaus. The show was a special about the future of cities, and this being Auslandsjournal they usually film…
TV shows at the barber shop & why the internet isn’t the end of political discussion
In a New York Times article about how the internet shapes political discourse, this lovely quote crossed my path (it paraphrases Professor Cass R. Sunstein’s ideas): In the…