Society

Today, ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing to see here. Move along. Click away. You don’t have to see everything. The bags of rice can and will fall over without you. A plea for more flat balls.

If you look around Europe these days, you get the feeling that we are on the ropes. That we can’t do anything anymore. And that we celebrate it like never before with our very own desire to be submissive. How stupid.

If I had been told 1.5 years ago that we would be voting on the first lockdown in Switzerland in 2018, I would probably have laughed out loud. Switzerland, the country of reason, of compromise, of the future. No way. But unfortunately that’s exactly what’s happening at the moment. A downright disgrace for a country…

I’m sorry to disappoint you right at the beginning. This article is not really about Tesla. It is about journalism, about the individual assessment of information and about a business model that is increasingly running aground. And about the effects on our society.

I admit that I fibbed a little two years ago when I wrote that the next few years in Switzerland and politics would decide for me personally whether I would stay here or emigrate to a foreign “start-up valley”. In reality, the matter was actually clear to me – I was going to leave.

A petition initiated by the Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V. is calling on the party leaders of the CDU, CSU and SPD to appoint a digital minister. I think that is well-intentioned. But it is the wrong measure. What we need in politics is more foresight. Further than what we call digitalization today.

If you read the headlines in the daily press, you might think that robots are on the verge of taking all our jobs. It’s not even close to that. Depending on how you see it, “unfortunately” or “fortunately”. Nevertheless, the topic is a concern for employees, entrepreneurs and university professors alike.

I am naive. A “do-gooder” daydreamer. A trivializer. My somewhat too quick and direct answer after a presentation to the question of how I would assess the new right-wing populism got me a lot of flak. It felt like I got more emails and messages afterwards than there were people in the room that evening.

In the twilight of the electric car era, the discussion about electric cars is slowly but surely shifting to the wider public. At the same time, the discussion is heating up. The debate is driven by vested interests, misconceptions and assumptions. What many do not know: This debate is completely normal. Technological paradigm shifts have…

I have actually made it a rule not to write about the relevant topics in the run-up to votes. This time I’m making an exception, because the debate on a new energy law, which is intended to give Switzerland a roadmap for savings and the use of renewable energies, could not be more disappointing. It…