Digital Revolution – Europe needs Willingness to Take Risks and Fault Tolerance
Steve Jobs had it easier than the Swiss entrepreneur Alfred Escher – said Lino Guzzella, President of ETH Zurich. The larger the market and the more optimistic attitude towards innovation in the US result in the local world successes with the digital revolution. Lino Guzzella formulated a farsighted, encouraging focus on the future for Switzerland […]
Bahman Nirumand’s latest Iran Report
WORLD SALON speaker Bahman Nirumand reports about the execution of two minors, Steinmeiers visit in Teheran and a photo exhibition on Iran in Berlin. This and other news from politics, culture and economy in the November issue of the Iran report. With the election Hassan Rohanis to the Iranian president and his assumption of office […]
German Archeologists Return in Iraq
WORLD SALON speaker Margarete van Ess continues her heart project and is honored as „excellent ambassador for Germany“. Wars, conflicts and the iconoclasm of the Islamic state threaten cultural assets in the Arabian world. For the first time since 2002 German archeologists pursued again fieldwork in Southern Iraq – under big safety measures. … […]
Should the West Limit Itself?
Heinz Theisen opens us a wide historic and inspiring perspective: „The West believed that his values would pacify the world. However, the unipolar Western world order was a utopia. Instead of the end of history, we now have endless conflicts.“ (Guest commentary – in German – in NZZ, 4.11.15). Should the West limit itself? How […]
Income and Happiness – Nobel Prize for Economics and Happiness Research
Angus Deaton will be honored with the Nobel Prize in Economic Science 2015. His outstanding research combines economic theory and measurable behaviour of all day live in a inspiring way. His main field is the econmic context of happiness. He found out together with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman the surprising: money is important for our […]
Accepting Refugees
Accepting Refugees is First of all Human, and Makes Economic Sense. „Everey euro we spend on training migrants is a euro to avoid shortage of skilled labour“, German state government declared some days ago. To accept refugees is not only human, it makes economically sense. Accepting refugees Read more in New Scientist. To unconditionally connect […]
„Happiness is having the feel of life in your bones…“
„Happiness is something you must work for and is not got easily. It is having the feel of life in your bones…“ The quota is the conclusion of Sandy McHugh research about the changes of the perception of happiness between 1938 and 2014 in Bolton, Great Britain. What is happiness 1938 and 2014? When basic […]
Sanctions against Iran partially lifted
Switzerland has lifted its sanctions against Iran yesterday partially. As the first country Switzerland is implementing the decision of the UN from 20 July 2015. What an important prerequisite, that the prospects for the people of Iran gradually grow back. To unconditionally connect worlds is our concern. Join our community. Read more : News in […]
World Success of Multicultural Nation
Singapore became independent 50 years ago – his development, it owes authoritarianism and cultural openness. Without natural resources Singapore in 1965 released by the British Empire in the independence. It was considered hardly viable and has blossomed astonishingly under Lee Kuan Yew. While other Southeast Asian countries in the sixties occured nationalist, discriminatory and confrontational towards neighboring […]
How Imagination Ensures our Global Sovereignty
We human beings have gained the most power of all living species worldwide because of our imagination. We are able to create new realities, that help us to cooperate more flexibel and in much greater groups than any other creatures. How imagination Yuval Noah Harari, history lecturer in Jerusalem, presents his fascinating thoughts in his […]
