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Is Democracy An Endangered Species?
The past ten years have seen the rise of autocrats in many countries around the world. Renowned author Moisés Naím, a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, analyzes…
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The Metaverse And the Next Pattern of Computing
Is the metaverse “where it’s all going?” Designer Mark Rolston, a pioneer of the digital transformation, hears this question a lot. Many of his customers want to know, and in…
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Maria Ressa’s Fight for Democracy in the Digital Age
“A lie told a million times becomes fact”, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa told the DLD audience in 2020. Her fight against disinformation is more important than ever…
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Surveillance Capitalism: Do We Need A New Social Contract?
How can we reap the benefits of social media, and being connected, without surrendering all control to the digital giants who own the platforms? This is one of the key…
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The Lost Art of Connecting
While we all have large networks on social media and business platforms, real connection and long-lasting, meaningful relationships remain rare and exclusive – especially in a business context. In this…
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Key Insights: What We Learned at DLD All Stars
A world in crisis is also a world of opportunities. This was on full display at DLD All Stars, our three-day online conference that featured top speakers from politics, business,…
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The Incongruity Between Technology and the Social Fabric
Former Google ethicist Tristan Harris co-founded the Center for Humane Technology after realizing how manipulative many social media platforms have become – doing everything to keep users engaged, even if…
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What’s Next, Jimmy?
In his DLD All Stars presentation, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales analyzes the current technology landscape and explains what separates “good tech” from “bad tech” – regarding its influence on society.…
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Never Give Up
Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize 2021, Maria Ressa has become an international symbol of hope and resilience due to her tireless fight for freedom of speech. With her investigative…
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How to Stay Sane in Times of Division
From Covid-19 to climate change: It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by a sense of perennial crisis – in politics, society and nature. Award-winning author Elif Shafak and Hans Ulrich Obrist…
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Civil Society & Tech: A Benevolent Partnership?
While technology companies have brought many positive developments to our world, they have not always lived up to their responsibilities towards society. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, now a partner at…
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Attention Economy 2.0
Attention has always been an important currency in the media world – but digital media services and platforms have rewritten the rules of how to capture the attention of billions,…
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In his DLD Nature talk, UnternehmerTUM founder Helmut Schönenberger recounts his journey of starting at Technical University of Munich (TUM) 25 years ago, when it was not yet an internationally renowned university. Inspired by Stanford and Silicon Valley, Schönenberger built UnternehmerTUM into...
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The Big Picture Outlook
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