Book tips - CeBIT top theme 2016
CeBIT hot topic 2016
With the CeBIT 2016 top theme "d!conomy: join - create - succeed", the CeBIT organizers are focusing on people and their role as decision-makers and shapers of the digital transformation. Digitalization is affecting all areas of the economy and society at an ever-increasing pace. In the E-3 book tips, we go on a journey of discovery into this digital future. The books provide an outlook on how our entire lives and our society could change. Exciting novelties from CeBIT partner country Switzerland have also just been published in novel form: Crime writer Res Perrot has constable Grossenbacher investigating for the fourth time. Hanover, the great unknown? Curious stories reveal what trade fair visitors would otherwise hardly know.
" You have to pray for miracles, but you have to work for change. " -Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Source: E-3 Magazine - March 2016 issue
Digital transformation
In the 19th century, it was steam engines that changed the world and triggered the transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial society. Today, digital networking is in the process of triggering similarly far-reaching changes in the economy and society. The next five to ten years will decide who will be among the winners and who will be among the losers of this digital transformation. Digital Transformation guides the reader through key areas of the business and takes a look inside the company. It shows why no one will be spared from the digital transformation.
New digital territory
What will the highway of the future look like? And what will the digital factory look like? Where does Germany stand internationally in terms of digitalization and what opportunities and risks does this present? What could the future of the German economy look like? In their contributions, CEOs of DAX 30 companies, family entrepreneurs, scientists and bank CEOs provide insights into their respective sectors and give recommendations on how to deal with Industry 4.0.
Hanoverian secrets
Hanover - an underrated city. Locals know that. Tourists often don't: many only know the train station, which is an important rail hub from north to south. Yet it would be worth making Hanover the destination of your journey, getting out and taking in the city. The authors went in search of clues in the city. They have looked for amazing things, behind which there are exciting, forgotten stories.
Tell's grave
A mummified female corpse is discovered under pile dwellings on the construction site of the Opéra parking garage on Zurich's Bellevue. However, it soon becomes clear that the dead woman neither belongs to the Late Bronze Age nor died of natural causes. Someone has buried the woman alive. Who digs so deep to cover up a crime? Constable Paul Grossenbacher takes over the investigation and once again digs in the Zurich dirt.
Tides of the spirit
It is only a matter of time before computers are superior to the human mind and artificial intelligence also shapes our consciousness. David Gelernter, philosopher and visionary, turns the belief in technology on its head: "The spectrum of our consciousness is so diverse, so creative and so unique that no computer program could ever match it. Our mind can free itself from rules and create something completely new.
