21. Century Zeitgeist

Can Tech Solve California Homelessness

14 September 2019
California is the sixth-largest economy in the world: its GDP is $748 billion, which is more than Switzerland’s or Saudi Arabia’s. California is also the most progressive state in America by all means. Ecologically, California is leading the environmental laws. Socially, Californian citizens know few boundaries to their freedom. Technologically, with an estimated 1.5 million workers…
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No More Factory Model for Universities!

23 June 2019
203 universities, 160.000 working academicians, 8M enrolled students. That is the summary of Turkish higher education scene. The important question here is: What is the cumulative impact created by the graduates of these universities? When we exclude top 10 universities…
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Avoiding Existential Threats of Exponential Technologies: 3 Different Approaches

14 April 2019
As the exponentially growing technologies create bigger and bigger disruption in existing markets, the necessity to be ready for this transformation and foresee the short term future became much more important for enterprises, governments and people itself. More & more platforms are being initiated for formulating models to solve the problems generated and spread globally by the Internet and…
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Thinking About The “Alt-Tech”

30 March 2019
Watching the Christchurch gunman Brenton Tarrant’s (28) headband camera’s online streaming video, 90’s kids would not find anything they have not seen before. If you’ve ever played a first-person shooter game such as Call of Duty or Battlefield, you will…
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Design and Architecture for Sustainable Innovation

5 March 2019
While technology triggers transformation in every aspect of our life, do design and architecture succeed to keep up with this change to provide us with suitable habitats to live in? Architecture is an industry inspired and transformed by evolution. Take Brunelleschi’s…
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Digital Arts in a Digital Age

19 February 2019
From airplane patterns, to music rhythms, roads and various trackable human habits, online data is used to explore new frontiers in digital arts. The resulting images, figures or pieces are not just condensed information; it’s art. Data is the digital equivalent of a painter’s brush and canvas. Today, data driven art is an ever-growing field, yet there is no doubt that we have barely…
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Why We Established Beginning Node?

18 February 2019
“The global system we are part of seems to be spinning out of control. Headlines around the world tell us something is amiss in many societies. I believe many of the developments we see today in individual countries and societies are part of an interconnected network of…
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Manipulation of Viewpoint

29 January 2019
Our interpretation of history as well as our time, as it unfolds, are influenced by what we see, watch and read. How authentic, reconstructred or falsified they are? How are we influenced about how images conveyed messages? Do you recall the photograph in the title, which…
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The short-run effects of GDPR on technology venture investment

15 January 2019
This article was originally published on VOX.EU, on 07/01/2019. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation was a landmark piece of legislation stipulating how businesses approach consumers’ privacy with regards to data. Using EU and US data, this column explores how the legislation impacted technology venture investment. The implementation of GDPR had an immediate, pronounced, and negative…
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