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A Short Introduction to Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

If you spent the last 6 months watching at Initial Public Offerings (IPO) only, you missed out a huge trend. More and more startup teams – who develop software for blockchain platforms – decide to raise capital through an initial coin offering (ICOs).

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Will AI Enhance or Replace us Humans?

Artificial Intelligence is about to change the world. While smart assistants have already conquered our smartphones – they are about to conquer our workplace as well.

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Facebook: Avoid the evil Traits

Facebook: Evil or Great?

Today, a Facebook friend posted that he is going to delete Facebook. There are certainly pros and cons when it comes to the use of Facebook. However, when you pay close attention to how you use Facebook it is the most powerful communication tool in the world.

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Why you should never rely on one Cloud Storage Service only!

Relying on one Cloud Storage is Dangerous

Imagine you are organizing your whole life – private and business – in the cloud. Whether you use Dropbox, G-Drive, OneDrive, Amazon Drive, or Mega.nz, you have a problem if you rely on one single cloud storage service.

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Why do we Fight for Meaningless Bullshit Jobs?

The society slowly understands what experts have predicted since the early 2010th. Automation and robots will replace many jobs. The public sees the automation as an evil thing. The citizens of the United States seem to blame immigrants for the slow loss of jobs. The people here in Germany finally understood that it is the automation which is taking away our jobs.

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What is Facebook’s intention of introducing another Snapchat Clone: Messenger Day?

As I opened the Messenger app today I saw a friendly face of a friend in a rectangle on top of all messages. I clicked on it and it was another Snapchat cloned feature. The same “story” feature we already know from Snapchat, Instagram, and most recently WhatsApp.

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Controlling Smart Objects with Augmented Reality and Brain-Computer-Interfacing

Yesterday I met with Abdul, my co-founder at Advimu. He showed me the progress of his current research and development in the area of augmented reality and brain-computer interface.

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Augmented Reality? At least 2-5 Years To Go!

In the last days, a few news have been published which make augmented reality technology seems to be in a very far future.

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Why Banning Technology is Stupid

Last Saturday I read the article “You’re Fired” which was published in the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. Steven Hill the author of the article is of the opinion that we should forbid certain technologies.

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Programmers will become the new Blue-Collar Workers

Is programming a blue-collar job? A few days ago I discovered an article which was published on WIRED. The Author stated that “the next big blue-collar job is coding”. How is such a statement possible in a world where great developers are paid a yearly salary of $120,000 and more?