On wendwerk.de/wissen we explain what's what today. Here it's about something else: not knowledge itself, but its consequences.
For over a hundred years, clever minds have written down how they imagine the future. Today we can look back and see how much of it came true. What a hundred years of forecast forensics tells us about the predictions of today.
Read on →Six serious scenarios for the next ten years, drawn from what the sharpest thinkers are writing today - from abundance through loss of control to a renaissance of the human. A map, not a forecast.
Read on →John Searle's Chinese Room, devised in 1980 as a philosophers' toy, now sits in every pocket. Will the machine one day understand the meaning behind the characters - or will it forever just shuffle rules? And why the open answer demands more of us than any clear-cut one.
Read on →Schools are built for a world in which knowledge was scarce, texts were expensive and arithmetic was a matter of practice. That world is gone. What remains, what becomes newly important, and why it concerns every business.
Read on →A map of the most important voices thinking today about the future of humanity - from the AI optimism of a Sam Altman to the planetary sobriety of a Vaclav Smil.
Read on →50 tools, 10 models, a new promise every week. About a phenomenon that has a name - and the honest first step out of it.
Read on →Six observations from our work with small and mid-sized businesses. Without panic and without promises of salvation.
Read on →Thinking never happens without knowledge. If you're interested in the factual groundwork - what AI actually is, how data protection works, what software really costs, how a project runs with us -, then the best place to begin is wendwerk.de/wissen.
Write to us. These texts are not sales materials - but they probably give you a better sense of how we think than any list of services ever could.
Curated by Johannes Hohls for wendwerk.