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Crowd Control
April 12, 2016Currently the positive powers of the masses are praised and discussed extensively. Swarm-intelligence, crowd-funding, crowd-sourcing and crowd-innovation are some of the keywords that promise economic and social progress due to bundling of individual powers. Social media platforms make it easy to fuse individuals into masses, reinforced by frequent and cheap...
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Sign Language
February 09, 2016The rise of the icons has been going hand in hand with industrialization, increasing mass mobility as well as the growing mass communication. The highest concentration of sign language can be found in public spaces as roads, airports and the world wide web, areas where a high diversity of nationalities...
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Merry Christmas & Happy 2016
December 24, 2015TD wishes everyone a Merry Christmas, and a healthy and successful 2016!
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Defensive City
December 09, 2015The age of fortressed cities is long gone. Protective borders designed to fend off outside enemies have made a shift from city perimeters to national and even supranational boundaries, as in the case of the Schengen Area.
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Private Islands
October 19, 2015During the age of discovery, the sight of new islands raised explorers’ hopes for more uncharted landmasses, populated by strange people, plants and animals. In those days islands became destinations of dreams – of new worlds. It seems only logical that Thomas More’s fictional Utopia – a perfect society – was on an island.
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Around the world in GEO
October 17, 2015Issue Nr 10 2015 of GEO magazine - Germany presents an edition of Around the world.
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Refugee Camps
August 24, 2015The political formalization of our planet’s surface into territories through the nation building process assigned every human to a specific territory. This organized the world nicely and granted the people within the territories with specific rights.
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Walls & Fences
June 03, 2015Since the fall of the Iron Curtain a quarter century ago, the world has been busy building barriers at an unprecedented rate: about 10,000 km of wire, concrete, steel, sand, stone and mesh has been employed to keep people out or in.
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Submarine Cables
June 01, 2015Living in the age of Wi-Fi, we float on an illusion of wireless communication, yet over 95 per cent of international communication is routed via submarine fibre optic cables. Data and voice transfer over such cables is not only cheaper but also much quicker than satellite transmission.