A discreet hotline for politicians to get tech advice. Worth doing?
We keep seeing politicians making decisions about technology and the web that seem odd and ill-informed. In some cases, this might be due to lobbying, and that would…
Category: politics
We’re all under surveillance – where to go from here?
Since the seemingly never-ending series of revelations about mass surveillance of citizens in the Western democracies by their governments (or indirectly by their partners through data exchange)…
The frustrating state of affairs: Merkel’s government & blanket surveillance
Every day we learn more about the role the German government and intelligence services play in surveillance of very dubious legality in Germany. We’ve been learning that the…
Blanket surveillance damages democracy. Minister of the Interior Friedrich doesn’t mind, would like to expand surveillance.
A note: I wrote this blog post as a snapshot of my current thinking, and admittedly it turned into a bit of a rant. Proceed at your own…
Bad idea: Berlin considers turning Tempelhof Airport into a model Smart City
Photo by Axel Kuhlmann (CC by) As Morgenpost reported, there are plans to turn the former Tempelhof Airport into a model Smart City. Currently, the whole former…
Obama on 3D printing and Space Age style research
Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3D…
Antwort auf DER SPIEGEL: “Im Namen der Freiheit”
This post refers to an article in this week’s SPIEGEL print edition. Since the article is in German, my comment will be in German, too. tl;dr: It seems…