by Matthias Rohner | May 27, 2021 | Society, Technology
What if we concieve robots as humans, because we can’t tell them apart from us? Science-fiction literature has long played with this theme. It appears for example in the figure of R. Daneel Olivaw (R standing for “Robot”) from Isaac Asimov’s...
by Matthias Rohner | Jan 31, 2021 | Business
These days, many companies march to war. Management gathers in “war rooms”. HR hires “headhunters” to win the “war for talent”. Finance “defends” the margins. Marketing creates “battle cards”. Sales...
by Matthias Rohner | Jan 19, 2021 | Business, Society, Technology
Matrix is the Genesis movie of our times. One fascinating thread is how Trinity and Neo become true badasses. While in the real world their skills need to be learned and earned, their performance in the virtual Matrix can increase in seconds. An ‘operator’...
by Matthias Rohner | Nov 13, 2020 | Society, Technology
“By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments. By the Hegira, ninety-eight percent of the...
by Matthias Rohner | Aug 15, 2020 | Business, Technology
For a long time, a wider audience knew about AI mainly through cultural recitation, such as books or movies. The dystopian science-fiction theme of ‘robots kill everyone’ is just the most fun variation of it. Such narratives shaped how AI is perceived by the Western...
