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…
Category: politics
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…
freelance pension plans. the good, the bad & the ugly.
German Labor Secretary von der Leyen proposed to include all freelancers in the German pension system. Before, for freelancers paying into the pension pool was voluntary – much…
A Trainwreck Called SOPA
The Washington Post just had a great article about the horrible train wreck called SOPA that we’ve all been watching: When you have a signed letter from the…
Berlin votes
I just cast my vote in the Berlin state elections (Wikipedia de/en). No worries, I’m not going to go into politics here. And yet, I think there is…
The Wikileaks Process
I’ve been racking my brain over the last few days since the whole Wikileaks / Cablegate story began escalating. I’ve been trying, in short, to find my own…