ANDRÉ CRAMER

The China Flywheel for Technology World Domination… (or how Autocracies benefit strongly from AI)

I have been reading and sharing lots of news and insights into China and the country’s way of digital transformation recently. First, it’s simply exciting to see what’s happening in China when it comes to digital innovation. There’s a never ending stream of new products, services and, that’s most remarkable – since it is nowadays unique and bred locally – new digital use cases, life styles and ways of integrating technology into every day life.

But secondly, I do have my strong concerns when it comes to top notch digital innovation driven by a country that is an autocracy without a humanistic agenda. Here’s an example:

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January 27, 2019

What is the key learning from Google Duplex? Digital Responsibility needed more than ever before…

I guess by now we have all heard of the very controversial Google Duplex demonstration at Google I/O 2018, where a human-voice synthesized bot called several local businesses and was able to interact with humans who had no idea they were talking to a machine. Many of us are fascinated by the technological progress that could be witnessed. A part of me was fascinated just like that. But to me the real fascinating discussion is about ethics, specifically AI ethics that come along with approaches like Duplex. Continue reading “What is the key learning from Google Duplex? Digital Responsibility needed more than ever before…” →

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May 15, 2018 0

Are you aware of the insane Energy Consumption for Bitcoin Creation that is ahead of us? Soon to hit a hard wall…

Over the last months and especially culminating in the last days, it was hard to avoid the bitcoin topic. Climbing to insane heights, bitcoin has passed even the keenest expectations regarding “value” that many of us had. The price has crossed the $15k mark for the first time this week.

Although I do see a bright future for cryptocurrencies, for me the key value lies in the potential it has in enabling us to create a fundamentally new financial system. From a speculators point of view I do believe that what we currently see is mostly based on the greater fool theory (“I will buy Bitcoin because others will hype it even more”). Continue reading “Are you aware of the insane Energy Consumption for Bitcoin Creation that is ahead of us? Soon to hit a hard wall…” →

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December 8, 2017 0

“Krack” is exactly that kind of thing bringing us closer to the “Internet of crappy Things” armageddon

My five cents on the „krack“ Wi-Fi / WPA2 security issue that is now slowly but steadily getting out of focus again. This is a classic “Internet of Things”, or “Internet of crappy Things” topic that I have written about before.

It is highly questionable if “krack” will ever really disappear; in a sense that it will be patched and fixed thoroughly so that no one has to worry about it anymore. Yes, a variety of providers of affected software and hardware have announced or even distributed such patches. But when it comes to the long tail of Wi-Fi enabled Internet of Things, smart home or whatever kind of connected devices, it would be naïve not to Continue reading ““Krack” is exactly that kind of thing bringing us closer to the “Internet of crappy Things” armageddon” →

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October 24, 2017 0

How Mozilla’s Common Voice Project bubbled up my very own 2013 AI- & Voice-Assistance Services Ideation again (André Cramer)

Last week I stepped on a piece of news with yet another story about the voice-driven assistance services which have gained so much traction recently: “Mozilla is crowdsourcing voice recognition to make AI work for the people“. I have been an enthusiastic Alexa user myself right from the start. I believe voice-based assistance services, voice-based human-computer interaction, in general, have a bright future. At least bright in terms of a sharp surge in usage and a myriad of use cases that bring benefits to most consumers and businesses. Continue reading “How Mozilla’s Common Voice Project bubbled up my very own 2013 AI- & Voice-Assistance Services Ideation again (André Cramer)” →

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August 3, 2017 0

Where accelerating technological Development will lead us in the next 15-20 years (André Cramer)

I would like to share some of my thoughts on key developments that I believe will determine our lives in the upcoming two decades. Almost all of this is fueled by ever more accelerating technological progress and there are a lot of opportunities in it. As well as significant challenges.

Looking back at the perceived principle of the industrial age, where growth occurred or seemed to occur in a linear function, today we know about Moore’s Law. We have been able to observe it for the last 50 years where over time it became clearer that we have a doubling of computing power roughly every 1,5 years.

Now how does that apply in our everyday life? Where do we actually see that technologies get more and more “disruptive”? To show that this is not about buzzwords, here are a couple of examples for “wow” type of developments: Continue reading “Where accelerating technological Development will lead us in the next 15-20 years (André Cramer)” →

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January 3, 2017 0

AI is absolutely essential for the Messaging Platform Business Model to take over the World (of B2C) (André Cramer)

Over the course of the last weeks and months you couldn’t escape news and stories about messaging platforms going after B2C use cases à la “order me some food”, “book me a hotel room” or “I need a ride downtown in 30 minutes”.

Pioneered and taken to huge success in Asia by platforms like Weixin/WeChat, LINE and Kakao, especially Facebook with its two behemoth platforms Messenger and WhatsApp is taking decisive actions to bring businesses and consumers together on their platforms. Kik is even faster, having just launched such a botstore for brands. In their launch line-up are 18 well-known brands such as Sephora, H&M or The Weather Channel. And with these moves, communications platforms will tap into significant revenue streams in the form of rev shares and commissions for being the facilitator between businesses and consumers in everyday Transactions.
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April 6, 2016 0

“Am-Ball-Bleiben” Reading Digest Newsletter #001 von André Cramer

Mehr Menschen sollen mehr über unsere gesellschaftlichen Debatten und (digitalen) Zukunftsoptionen wissen. Damit wir unsere Zukunft gemeinsam und informiert gestalten können. Das ist mein WHY – das, was mich jeden Tag antreibt. In diesem Newsletter findet ihr eine (meistens) wöchentliche Auswahl meiner Lieblingsartikel aus den Bereichen Technologie & Innovation und Gesellschaft & Politik. Und vor allem auch von dort, wo sich beide Themen berühren. Ich versuche die Artikel einzuordnen, mit weiteren Infos & Links anzureichern und teile meine Meinung dazu.

Mein Leitsatz hierbei: Immer danach Ausschau halten, wo die Debatte über Technologie geführt wird, sie aber besser über Gesellschaft und Menschen und über ihr Wohl geführt werden sollte. Und dann in diese Richtung lenken.

Ein regelmäßiger Newsletter zu den Themen Technologie, Gesellschaft und was wichtig ist, wo sich beide berühren. Mehr auf andrecramer.net. Social Links am Ende des Newsletters.

Hiermit startet die erste Ausgabe meines Newsletters. In den letzten 2 Jahren hatte ich für mich entschieden, dass mein Weg der Teilhabe meiner Community an meiner Reise durch die relevanten Nachrichten unserer Zeit das Video-Format “FAV4” sein sollte. Kleine, ca. 1-minütige Videoclips mit meinen Top 4 Technologie & Innovationsnews der Woche, verbreitet über LinkedIn, Twitter und meinen Blog. Aber wir treten ja nicht auf der Stelle, sondern entwickeln uns ständig weiter, nicht wahr? Als Teil meines Jobs, und mit voller Energie meiner Passion folgend, lese ich sehr, sehr viel. Ich hatte einfach das Gefühl, dass das FAV4 Format meinen Anspruch, spannende Inhalte mit meiner Community zu teilen, einfach nicht mehr gerecht wurde. Deshalb ein Newsletter. Ich hoffe, dass ihr nicht denkt „hach, schon wieder ein weiterer Newsletter“. Mir liegt’s am Herzen und ich bin sicher, dass hier immer wieder tolle Impulse für Euch dabei sein werden.Genug der Vorrede. Diese Artikel haben mich in den letzten zwei Wochen interessiert und beschäftigt. In meinen Augen: worth sharing. Enjoy!

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October 3, 2019