Klosterfrau Melissengeist, 4711, Wirtschaftswunder…

Frage: Wie kannst Du Deine Fähigkeiten bei modernen Technologien und Anwendungen mit retail etc und research in Zusammenhang bringen?

Antwort: Indem ich versuche, nicht nur am technologischen, sondern auch am gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Diskurs teilzumehmen. Entwcklungen in Technologie, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft verlaufen niemals kontinuierlich, selten unabhängig voneinander, zumeist zyklisch und bisweilen revolutionär.

Trends entstehen in der Gesellschaft. Sie werden ermöglicht durch technologische Entwicklungen. Technologie beeinflusst die Balance zwischen Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Staat. Um handlungsrelevante Aussagen z.B. ueber die Entwicklung marktgerechter Produkte oder Dienstleistungen treffen zu können, muss ich zunaechst verstehen, was die in diesem Kräftespiel handelnden Menschen antreibt.

Der Grund meiner Fähigkeit, Trends zu analysieren, liegt wohl darin, dass ich aufgrund meiner Ausbildung und meines beruflichen Werdegangs in der Lage bin, sowohl technologische, als auch gesellschaftliche Fragestellungen zu identifizieren und die entsprechenden Erklärungsmodelle unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen (z.B. Naturwissenschaften, Sozialwissenschaften) zu verstehen.

Marktrelevante Aussagen lassen sich bisweilen dadurch treffen, dass aus dem Vergleich der unterschiedlichen Erklärungsmodelle Muster oder Widersprüche erkennbar werden.

Das Bild zeigt zwei alternde Philosophen vor der beeindruckenden Kulisse des Amazonas, mittem im Diskurs über Sinn und Unsinn der Welt und die Zeit, die sie gehabt haben könnten.

Technology enables business. Control of technology (e.g. patents, skills) makes business easier.

The owners of the business can invest in the development of new technologies by employing talented people (e.g. engineers, artists). They do not invest in revolutionary technologies which could destroy their business and they employ other talented people (e.g. lawyers, politicians) to prevent that technological revolutions make their business obsolete.

Business can determine technology only to a certain degree. Universities still play an important role in the technological development. And some people just use their daytime jobs to pay their rents and at night they do what they can to make the technological revolutions happen anyway.

Example: SDMI

[...] “imagine I am the CEO of a big record label and there are no standards for identification, audio codec, usage rules language, Digital Rights Management (DRM), etc. Secure digital music is then a good opportunity to create a “walled garden” where content will only play on certain devices.” [1]

Example: DMP

Imagine I am the CEO of an independent record label an there is a standard for identification, audio codec, usage rules language, Digital Rights Management (DRM), etc. Secure digital music is then a good opportunity to create a platform where content will play on all devices and users can pay for it if they think that the price is fair.

The DMP approach is successful, but it will take time.

Music is human language. CapXML is a language for expressing music so that computers can read (listen to?) it. Computer programmes can analyze existing music and combine musical concepts in a new fashion.
Intellectual property lawyers will be still be able to decide whether a given piece of music is the manifestation of an original work by an author (copyrighted) or the sound played by a computer only resembles the music of a certain artist. But lawyers will not sue computers and people will not care if the music they listen to is copyrighted or not.

Music is what you feel when you open up your ears and the musical concepts enter your brain (or your brain enters the musical concepts?).

A good DJ knows to play the right music at the right time. Since we have a choice, finally we need not pay anymore bad musicians and the major labels for the wrong music at the wrong time.

The picture shows DJ chantaL in front of a chain curtain by Philippe Bradshaw (finissage of ‘a fly in the house’, Saarland Museum, Saarbruecken)

My old life is falling apart. The good thing about a big city is the increased probability of meeting complete strangers who are also looking for a life before death. Currently I live not in a big city. It is noteworthy that in the last weeks, being always on the road, I have met more interesting people than in the two and a half years before. The picture shows a parking lot in Paris. Nice colors.