Tag: Miriam Meckel
Medicine against advanced civilization disorders
Lent is finally over. Someone in the family or circle of friends is always not eating chocolate, meat (anymore) or drinking alcohol. And then the social pressure that comes with…
Human stupidity is systemic
I should have quit my job last week. I’m a co-founder of an edutech company, ada Learning, that helps companies and organizations upskill their leaders. I believe that people are…
AI language models: There is a risk of text incest
Every second panelist, almost every moderator starts the same: I once asked ChatGPT what I should say. What was once original has long since become a worn-out routine. ChatGPT seems…
Germany is blocking the future
data protection “In a world that is foreseeably shaped by data-intensive, self-learning AI in all areas of life, we are like yesterday’s data idiots,” says Miriam Meckel. (Photo: dpa) Much…
The hobby generals in the media make it too easy for themselves
Old maps register a new boom. Designated dealers sell them internationally for a lot of money, and enthusiasts, including people from the younger generation, use them. Not in everyday life,…
The next competition of the giants
Writing artificial intelligence The ChatGPT system could change the rules of the game on the Internet. (Photo: dpa) Forever greets the marmot and it is always Europe. As we enter…
Weather forecast for human civilization
It was a mixed year that is now coming to an end. Mankind has had to train its crisis muscle vigorously against a whole series of storms. The pandemic, the…
FTX Founder Sam Bankman Fried: Effective Selfishness
So many questions, and a 30-year-old ex-billionaire carries the answers in his heart to the Caribbean or to jail. The bankruptcy of the crypto exchange FTX, the merciless fall of…
Is the end of progress still inevitable?
There was a time when American experts were envious of the German scientific system, which was constantly producing great new discoveries. One should not underestimate “the growing daily evidence of…
Publicist Miriam Meckel on technology
Dusseldorf “In the perception of many people, technology has arrived where it belongs,” says Meckel – namely “as a medium of civilizational upheaval”. Never before has technology – positively or…
Publicist Miriam Meckel on technology
Dusseldorf “In the perception of many people, technology has arrived where it belongs,” says Meckel – namely “as a medium of civilizational upheaval”. Never before has technology – positively or…
Zero-star hotel in the Swiss Valais: the hum of civilisation
Approaching the gas station on Avenue des Comtes de Savoie in the small commune of Saillon in the Swiss canton of Valais is a bit like stepping into Edward Hopper’s…
Digital workplace monitoring: When thinking becomes expensive
When Jeremy Bentham had the idea of the Panopticon in 1791, he drew a circular building. Numerous lighted rooms, cells or offices were planned in its outer circle. Inside the…
Abba Voyage: The virtualization of the entertainment industry
There is a moment when self-reflection suddenly sets in. A moment in which I ask myself: What am I actually doing here? The answer is: I am cheering for a…
Is artificial intelligence the better democrat?
For hundreds of years, philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and economists like Adam Smith have been asking: How can we make our society fair? How can we distribute the wealth we…
The agony of choice
Humanity has an unconscious but existential capacity for self-mockery. How else could it be explained that for centuries we have lived with an economic system that plays off the contradictory…
VW boss Diess on moral compromises
Dusseldorf At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, CEOs, politicians, investors and representatives of NGOs discussed the state of the world. On the fringes of the WEF, VW boss…
Miriam Meckel: Ambient Computing: The Alternative to the Metaverse
In 1989, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev reportedly said, “He who comes too late will be punished by life.” A sentence that could give Vladimir Putin food for thought at…
Elon Musk & co. The return of the strong men
If the world situation weren’t so desolate, one could have really laughed again about the pig that Elon Musk is driving through the Internet. In a typical communicative interplay between…
Creative Destruction Column: The Disruption of the Self
My 93-year-old father is also a philosopher of life. One of his frequently quoted sentences deals with the “fragmentary nature of human existence”. What he means by that: People are…