Generation Utopia

In this article I explain why I’m optimistic that the necessary yet substantial social change to build a utopia in the next generation can really take place. In fact, the more radical and revolutionary the innovation the easier it could be to bring about change, because people have better reasons to change their behavior or … More The Exponential Innovation Motivation: Why It Could Be Easier than We Think to Inspire Social Change with Radical Innovations

One of the core arguments I make in this project is that while the scientific and technological potential to improve our lives is growing exponentially we humans realize this potential insufficiently or, you could say, linearly. In historical terms we are on the brink of creating a Utopia – a world without hunger, poverty, war … More The Innovation Habit: How Changing the World Is Easy If We Make It A Habit

Education is by far the most important input into our society and economy – it has the greatest multiplier effects on our living standards of any system or industry. At the same time, perversely, it is the most inefficient system or industry. Nowhere else will you find such jaw-dropping lack of professionalism, under-optimization and, frankly, … More Education: Innovation Priority No. 1 – Why Education Has the Greatest Multiplier Effect

Transport is arguably one system in our modern civilization that has gotten worse, i.e. less efficient, overall over the past generation. Our economy has almost grown three-fold in the last thirty years and that has translated into more and better products and services. Yet, traffic has gotten so bad it often takes us longer to … More The Insanity of Modern Traffic

What if there were things that we could do or change about our world that would get us twice the money without working any more hours? “Well”, you would probably say, although somewhat jokingly, “where do I sign up?” The cool thing is, that it’s definitely possible. In fact, we have gone from living on … More The Multiplier Effect of Innovation

Original date of publication: 8. November 2016 Hello there, Americans and the rest of the world. This is the day that the majority of us have completely abandoned reason and facts and it is now clear that people prefer populism and making decisions based on emotions and instinct rather than facts. Think about how fascinating … More With Trump We’ve Reached The Pinnacle Of Ignorance – And It’s Scary

Daily inefficiency #1 out of 1000s: Lining up at supermarkets and shops So the other day I went to a supermarket in Vienna just to buy a little snack for € 2. It took me about 45 seconds to decide on and grab the snack, but then I hit the queue and had to wait … More On Daily Inefficiencies: Why We Have To Make A Habit Of Not Accepting Them

Since this project is called “Generation Utopia” and I’m aware that that is a terribly cheesy name I want to explain why I chose it, why I think it builds such a strong, concise vision and what I mean by the term “utopia”. So let’s rationalize some cheesiness. As a side note, this is a … More What Even Is A “Utopia”?

I wrote this article to explain why I’m such an optimist about science and technology and why I think that we are at a tipping point, a unique time in the history of our civilization, of solving the world’s remaining problems and build, more or less, a utopia. I think we could, technically, solve climate … More The Caveman-Smartphone Metaphor