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Two days a month offline: really alone with your own thoughts
What would it be like to go without mobile phones, computers and the internet for a day? A lot of people wouldn’t really know how to answer that question any more: for so long now we’ve been using all the conveniences of the digital world, offered to us by the simplifying algorithms of quoted American…
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Real Solutions for Real Problems
Danny Mekić (27) is a jurist, an internet expert and a businessman. He founded the strategic consultancy firm NewTeam and was declared ‘most successful young entrepreneur’ in 2009. He’s a man of many talents who is in love both with startups and with the establishment. Mekić tells us his contrarian views on the digital world. For example: our usage of…
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Farmers could solve many of their problems and challenges if they just shared knowledge globally
Farmers might think they know more about what goes on inside their fence line than anyone else. But there may be a day when a number cruncher on the other side of the world can predict a farm’s performance just as well as the farmer, if not better. At least that’s the scenario that could…
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Danny Mekić is after sustainable innovations
To let today’s solution be tomorrow’s solution too. Humankind in the West has accomplished great things. Our knowledge is richer than ever and information is available around the world. There are walnuts from Australia in European supermarkets, and we can eat strawberries any time of the year. Technology does much of our work for us,…