Clear cut in climate policy
How the Austrian government handles a public interest. Another opinion contribution by Kurt Bayer.
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On Trump’s tariffs
Kurt Bayer explains why Trump’s tariffs policy is doomed to fail the promises of MAGA for the poor US citizens. It will rather evoke another global economic crisis.
Computer professionals for peace and social responsibility
“Ich bin nicht sicher, mit welchen Waffen der dritte Weltkrieg ausgetragen wird, aber im vierten Weltkrieg werden sie mit Stöcken und Steinen kämpfen.” Albert Einstein Das Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e.V. (FIfF) hat ein Memorandum zu seinem 40-jährigen…
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Industrial Policy is back – is it?
See Kurt Bayer’s commentary on the issue of Industrial Policy in China, USA, EU and Austria here.
Does Trump Give Us Still Room for a New Economic Paradigm?
We welcome Kurt Bayer’s Commentary as a befriended website of GSIS. Economist Kurt Bayer served as expert at our Utopia(s) Reloaded talks in 2023. Find here his interview on “How can climate justice be executed?” (https://vimeo.com/896184065). Kurt maintains a blog…
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It is now 89 seconds to midnight
Two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and former Manhattan Project scientists, established the Doomsday Clock. Every year since then the state of the world had been assessed. Setting the minute…
AI between euphoric expectations and dystopian scenarios
The latest issue of FIfF Kommunikation, the German journal in the field of informatics and society, issued by the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibilty (FIfF) in December 2024, focusses again on the topic of AI. Hans-Jörg Kreowski…
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The speaker Rosa Luxemburg
Francesca Vidal, our friend from Schwerpunkt Rhetorik at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) in Landau, reminded us of a lecture by her in which she discussed the rhetorical side of Rosa Luxemberg. This may be of interest in the context…
Herbstfest im Althangrund für Alle
DJ Lambada/GSIS was part of it. [photo: Irena Mostowicz]
Pope Francis on AI
When Pope Francis attended the G7 summit last month, he addressed the assembled country leaders with a speech on Artificial Intelligence, titled “An exciting and fearsome tool”, “concerning the effects of artificial intelligence on the future of humanity” as he…