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Entries by Reinhard Riedl

The big political gap between the past and the present

There is considerable evidence that in the future platforms will act as global markets and thereby control the behavior of both suppliers and customers. The decide on who gets access to the market, they permanently collect information about everyone on their platforms, and they define the rules for prices and services. Alpha, Amazon and Apple […]

Applying ICT knowledge to ICT business

Software engineering practices have changed the way we look at organizations. It has become widely accepted that agile practices improve the speed of change. It has been partly understood that teams are more important than processes, as they reduce the biggest risk in many companies which is the failure of communication. And there are considerable […]

New game, new culture, new IT!

The digital transformation relies on new digital tools and their networking. This creates new scope for action, which must also be used by economic actors in a competitive society. This requires new skills and new disciplinary practices, with which a change in culture goes hand in hand and also becomes necessary. All of this together […]

About the use of spanners – Part II

Nobody is afraid of the growing loss of self-evident facts in our increasingly complex society. Hardly anyone is bothered by the fact that established design and engineering knowledge is being lost in practice – or more precisely, that the gap between the ever-improving state of knowledge and widespread practice is widening. But everyone is talking […]

On the (in)objective use of spanners

Many people are appalled that in the future many jobs will be done with spanners. Some find the use of spanners highly ridiculous. Some expect that spanner use will fundamentally change human thinking and feeling. Scientists even predict that eventually spanners will take over the whole universe. Spanners are a topic that clearly evokes high […]

About the future of the Internet

Researchers have been working on improvements since the Internet was established. The future architecture SCION  is also constantly being improved, among others by specialist Adrian Perrig from ETH Zurich. In this interview he explains how he and his team develop multi-path communication systems and attack defense approaches. What was your original motivation to design SCION? […]