Are the promises of salvation made by digital technologies threatening to turn into the opposite? How can the various issues our societies face these days as a result of the negative effects of the digital revolution be resolved? Strategists, designers, engineers, researchers, journalists, philosophers, practitioners, entrepreneurs and artists present various solutions in this book. They all share a constructive view of the digital world in which we live today. Edited by Matthias Schrader and Volker Martens, the organizers of the NEXT Conference in Hamburg. With contributions by Virginia Dignum, Pamela Pavliscak, François Chollet, Stephan Dörner, Martin Recke, Adam Tinworth, Nika Wiedinger, Fifer Garbesi, Tobias Revell, and David Mattin.

Matthias Schrader:Matthias Schrader is one of Europe's digital pioneers. He founded digital marketing and advertising agency SinnerSchrader in the mid-90s and began to develop e-commerce solutions for startups like Intershop, Ricardo and buecher.de, enabling them to go public earlier than expected. In 1999, SinnerSchrader issued a public offering of its own and was one of only a handful of fledgling companies that survived the so-called "new economy" and actually emerged strengthened by the experience. In 2006, Schrader founded the NEXT Conference which has become the leading symposium for digital transformation in Europe. Today, the author, with his team of more than 500 consultants, designers and software engineers, continues to assist many large DAX index companies to develop cutting-edge digital products. In February 2017, the worldwide management and technology consultancy Accenture announced it was taking a controlling interest in SinnerSchrader for a nine-figure sum.Volker Martens:Volker is a tech enthusiast and an avid networker across the digital business industry in Germany. He is co-founder and CEO of FAKTOR 3 along with Sabine Richter and Stefan Schraps. Since the three partners founded F3 in 1995, the agency is busy bringing the digital idea forward, starting with the rollout of AOL in Germany back then, and shaping the digital communication transformation of companies across various industries today. F3's headway towards digitalization also includes its approach of "Content Relations", a virtuous cycle of storytelling and content distribution backed by genuine, sustainable relations. Today, FAKTOR 3 with its subsidiaries F3 Live, F3 Design and F3 Consulting is one of Germanys top 10 communications agencies and "Agency of the Year 2017" as awarded by The Holmes Report. The agency employs more than 200 communication consultants, industry experts and content creatives. Current clients include Samsung, Adobe, Microsoft, Twitter, Beiersdorf, Porsche, REWE, Velux, STIHL and many more.Virginia Dignum:Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology and author of "A Model for Organizational Interaction: Based on Agents, Founded in Logic".Pamela Pavliscak:Founder of the design research company Change Sciences and author of "Designing for Happiness: The User and Business Benefits of Positive Design".Stephan Dörner:Tech journalist and online editor-in-chief of t3n, a magazine for the digital economy. He is particularly concerned with the big and small issues of digitisation and the impact of technologies on the economy, politics and society.François Chollet:Software engineer specializing in Deep Learning at Google and author of "Deep Learning with Python".Martin Recke:Co-founder of NEXT Conference, editor at SinnerSchrader, PR man, blogger, journalist, political scientist, theology, singer, father, Roman Catholic.Adam Tinworth:Digital publishing strategist, trainer and online journalist.Fifer Garbesi:Producer and director of Virtual Reality. As co-founder of ARTandVR, she organizes immersive art exhibitions to connect the world of technology and art.Nika Wiedinger:Cultural scientist, philosopher, researcher at the Institute for Economic Design (IfW), philosophical business and economic research.