“Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny” »

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31 March 2014 | Paul Frigyes, Journalist

Book Review: The Second Machine Age, Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014) by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee “The Second Machine Age” has been labelled as... »

Appetite for Acceleration »

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25 February 2014 | Ralf Grötker, journalist

Book Review: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (2013) by Douglas Rushkoff Everything is getting faster. The incoming call on our mobile device (while we are already talking on the landline... »

Tentpoles are the future of entertainment »

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29 January 2014 | Helienne Lindvall, columnist The Guardian

Book Review: Blockbuster (2013) by Anita Elberse In 2004, Chris Anderson, proclaimed: “Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the... »

Book review: The Openness Delusion »

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14 January 2014 | Ralf Groetker, journalist

“It’s not a bug. It’s a feature”. This, in grossly simplistic terms, is the central message of "Solutionism" – the term coined by the Belarusian-American Internet-critic Evgeny Morozov in his latest b... »

Book Review: The Shrinking Digital Economy »

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17 September 2013 | Paul Frigyes, Journalist

Who owns the future? Jaron Lanier (Allen Lane/Penguin 2013) Coming from a techno-geeky visionary, the message is both unusual and uncomfortable: as global digitalization disrupts valuations of int... »

Book Review: The Return of Centralized Powers »

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4 September 2013 | Paul Frigyes, Journalist

Big Data (a revolution that will transform how we live, work and think), Mayer-Schönberger/Cukier (Houghton Mifflin Harecourt, Boston/N.Y., 2013) Any review of a book on the topic big data normall... »