High-tech Problems

Technology has become the idol of our society, but technological progress is—more often than not—aimed at solving problems caused by earlier technical inventions.

Cars on Hot Air

What makes the car on air revolutionary is not that it runs on air but that it’s very small, light and slow.

January 9, 2008

Information damages the environment

Is an electronic newspaper more ecological than a paper newspaper?

January 3, 2008

Second Hand Bits and Bytes

You find them everywhere. Shops with used books, comics, compact discs - but where is the second hand market for digital products?

May 14, 2007

High speed trains: planes on wheels

From an ecological point of view, the strategy to move travellers from airplanes to high speed trains just doesn’t make sense.

April 6, 2007