Digitization

2018-03-17 Technology up close, TechFutures

Technology Up-Close: The Smartphone is Dead, Long Live the Wearable?

Recent technological advancements helped wearable virtual and augmented reality technology to become suitable for the masses and have a market breakthrough. How did the production environment of manual work change since then and where else are they applied in the B2B-environment? But, how to actually make a business case for wearables? What’s the consumer market’s reaction around the globe? Will wearable’s sales supersede and the technology eventually replace the smartphone? On the past, present and future of wearables and smartphones.

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The Staccato-Society: Will People Inform Themselves and Communicate Differently in 2030?

New publicly available media production and broadcasting means stir up the news and information landscape, old institutions are thrown off and can’t fulfill their old functions, overburdening illiterate consumers and leaving society at large disoriented and in limbo about what is real and true and what is not. Are there any pros coming forth out of this development? What needs to be done to regain order and give direction?

2018-03-17 Big Data & AI.xcf

Big Data & AI: Oil for New Businesses or Challenges for Privacy and Security?

Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data have developed tremendously over the last 70 years and enabled us to do things that we weren’t capable of before. But, do we actually want to do everything? Who is in possession of all that new knowledge and power? What rules and regulations ought to be applied for future developments beneficial for everyone?

Traditional Order of Knowledge and New Powers of the Internet

How do Education and Society Change in the Digital Age?

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Bonn University and State Library & FIW Bonn Lecture How do Education and Society Change in the Digital Age? Digitization affects traditional societal knowledge and education structures and thereby our future knowledge. But, who are the new owners and managers of this knowledge and data-richness? What role do the old “educational elites”, new knowledge collectives and […]

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Digitization of Healthcare

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In the midst of accelerated digitization and ubiquitous proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and algorithms for improved system efficiency, the implications of preventable losses and forgone gains due to rash implementation decisions and hesitant behaviour are much more profound for health and healthcare than for other, more commercial products and sectors. The stakes are high for correct diagnosis and treatment, protecting patient records and assuring ethical integrity of health care.

34th Bonn Business Talk (Bonner Wirtschaftstalk)

200 Years University Bonn to Learning 4.0

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34th Bonn Business Talk – Bonn Education 200 Years University Bonn to Learning 4.0 Higher education is changing: The Bologna Process, digitization and digitalization, formal, informal and non-formal educational offers and competition are challenges that universities and society have to face. Education pathways for Learning 4.0 – what will they look like? Is the Humboldt […]