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Let the music play

Let the music play

A last column in which we learn that each tune has its own fingerprint, and how services like Shazam use it to rapidly identify the song
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Martin Vetterli
Why Sex?

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
Digital Literacy

Digital Literacy

Where we learn what digital literacy is, and how its absence can lead to the worst dystopias
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Martin Vetterli
The cuckoo economy

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
A short history of communication

A short history of communication

Where we learn how we went from communicating with smoke signals, to post cards and to the modern day Internet
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Martin Vetterli
Inhaling data

Inhaling data

Where we finally understand the link between Nobel prizes and chocolate, and between correlation and causation
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Martin Vetterli
Who pays the bill?

Who pays the bill?

Where we learn what beers in a bar can teach us about the games of life
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Martin Vetterli
Zero, one, and all the things in between

Zero, one, and all the things in between

Where we learn that each digital revolution starts decades before we see it coming
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Martin Vetterli
Don’t Believe the Hype

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
You can’t have your cookie and eat it, too!

You can’t have your cookie and eat it, too!

Where we learn what the Migros Cumulus and the Coop Supercard have in common with web cookies
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Martin Vetterli
Shower Control

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
Electronic Democracy

Electronic Democracy

Where we learn that the old Swiss forms of direct democracy are probably still the safest voting methods, except if one uses the emerging…
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Martin Vetterli
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