I gave a talk on Ethics and Informatics at the CeDoSIA Summer get together on July 31st 2008. It was introduced as follows: In the 70-ies, some skeptics warned that...

Early in 2008 I cruised with dear friends in the MS Europa from CAIRNS Australia to MANILA Philippine. That was before I gave up flying. I flew with Quantas and...

Time and again, Wolf Geldmacher (my friend of many years and partner from Switzerland - we co-founded InterFace Connection GmbH, the predecessor of InterFace AG) and I have wondered about...

Prototypes beat Concepts! The "concepts" posting reminds me of a question that I have asked myself for quite some time: Why doesn't the software industry believe in prototypes? A new...

The year 2008 gave us another rainy July. But a keen cyclist (like me), who refuses to use his car these days, is not deterred by this! Everybody knows that...

This story was sent to IF-Blog by Rudi Jansche: A man riding his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in...

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Welcome to Germany! On entering the territory, you leave democracy behind! You enter a country full of anarchy, a country spoiled by disorganization. Chance is the ruling power, there are...

What makes people storm a university out of the blue and shoot dozens of their classmates? Why can a spouse, after thirty years of happy marriage, without apparent provocation, suddenly...