Severe consequences of human-made climate change can be observed all around the world. One indicator that is used to measure efforts, or rather successes, in this field is the so-called Earth Overshoot Day. It marks the day when humanity exceeds the amount of natural resources. This was introduced by the think tank “Global Footprint Network” and is defined as “… the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.“ The Global Footprint Network takes the biocapacity and the…
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Will I really benefit from 5G?
Don’t we all want new technologies that prospectively enhance the quality of all of our lives? Naturally, we want that as a society. But today I would like to provide arguments that should make you think about whether a technology like 5G is really being introduced “for the benefit of people” or rather “for the benefit of large corporations”. I will not dwell on technical details of this or conventional technologies but will argue that important decisions must be in the hands of citizens, rather than in the hands of…
My First Consciously Designed Online Presence
In the following I will reflect on my online presence. I will look at previous online presences of myself and reflect on them. Then I will explicate my design and functionality decisions. Finally I will point out how this might influence my behavior in the future. The course was an opportunity to create a personal branding in the form of a blog and I decided on the Acme-Theme, because this WordPress-theme has a professional look, without neglecting that what I knew so far as “traditional blog” design elements. The selection…
What am I doing here?
My purpose of the Blog, Toms digital space is to simply have a page where I can express myself in more or less academic ways in form of articles on topics related to my study program Digital society. My plans are so far to have a slider on my Homepage with my recent Blog articles. A reader will be able to subscribe to my Blog and can send me a message via a contact form. A very simple and clear design with only a few accents combined with a slidebar-menu…
My first 5 weeks at Maastricht University
I graduated a bit more than a year ago now. Many things are different to what I was used to in high school, but I would still say some things won’t change. I already knew some friends from the same high school which are studying here as well and even if they do not study the same it was relief for me to have some better known friends around me. The first weeks in Maastricht were very nice and I am looking forward to the next weeks and this “new…
