Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 4, 2018

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Six Handshakes Away from the President

How an experiment from 19060s in social psychology laid the foundations for the structure of…

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 17, 2018

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Suzanne Vega and the Father of MP3

How a rock musician and an engineer became parents of the most disruptive music format MP3 in the internet — and this without ever meeting.

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 17, 2018

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All Roads Lead to Google

What a drunken Roman soldier travelling the Empire’s roads can teach us about web search engines

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Dec 18, 2018

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The cuckoo economy

Where we learn that the new digital giants behave a bit like cuckoos, implanting their software into existing economies

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Dec 3, 2018

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Shower control

Where we learn what a common house shower has in common with airplanes, self-driving cars and the climate

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Nov 23, 2018

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A brief story of innovation

Where we discover an insightful link between the Swiss watchmaking tradition and the country’s leading role in…

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Dec 3, 2018

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Don’t believe the hype

Where we try to understand what’s behind past, current and future tech trends.

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Sep 17, 2018

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Divide, rule and… conquer the web!

The basic difference between a linear cooking recipe and the compression of a digital image, and how this solves some of our most fundamental IT problems

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Dec 18, 2018

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Why sex?

Where we learn between sexual and asexual reproduction, and why there could be such as things as sex at all

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Martin Vetterli in Digital Stories

Dec 18, 2018

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A short history of communication

Where we learn how we went from communicating with smoke signals, to post cards and to the modern day…

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