2022SPEAIT_Immo Fritze

       Sometimes the design can lead to a catastrophic failure, sometimes another element can be used to balance the issue and sometimes the design is simply perfect.      It was always a close battle between the leaders of the aviation industry Boeing and Airbus, however due to a fatal design flaw by Boeing, Airbus was able to secure a relevant market advantage. In 2014 Airbus reintroduced one of its most successful models, the A320, in a modernized set-up. By keeping most of the design the same the FAA approval had to go through less steps, however by changing the turbines and some material choices the aircraft was made significantly more effective. The new model, the A320 neo, was a big success and to counter that Boeing needed to react fast. Similarly, Boeing reintroduced their most successful model, the 737, as the 737 Max, with the same idea of offering the proven design with updated propulsion systems. Whilst testing their new aircraft the com...

     I am going to compare IT professionals of two countries, Finland and Germany as the value of an IT expert has such different images.      Stereotypical to the Scandinavian region, Finland’s IT workers are involved in societal development and occupy an important status. There is an extended 3/4G reception network, school are obligated to provide a course for students to pass the @-kortti, an IT-license and the IT industry is one of the largest in Finland. The government recognized the information era early and started adapting, informing the society, and raising awareness about its importance. The early engagement has proven fruitful, Finland provides many IT services and is recognized globally for to its contributions such as Nokia, and to the gaming industry e.g. Angry Birds and Supercell. Students are introduced to technology as a tool at an early age, which is promoted by government and private programs through financial virtues. Furthermore, Finl...

     When communicating online whether it is via WhatsApp with a friend, via email with a professor, via tinder with a match or in a forum with a complete stranger, we are using our online personality. I adhere to the idea that all of us have different personalities, I am not talking about having different underlying values and morals, just different ways of acting with different people. Just consider yourself when you are with your parents in comparison to when you are with your friends, or partner. I can hear myself changing my tone of voice, using a different vocabulary, maybe even changing my posture or even consider a change of wardrobe depending on what person or group I am with. One reason for that is that in my mind I have a picture of how other people might see me, or if I am to be honest, more of a picture of how I like to be seen by certain people.      We all do it, sometimes we are aware of it, but often we do not even realize that we change ...

     Copyleft, a term coined from the movement of free licenses, with the intention to antagonize copyrights. It determines how licenses will affect derived work, thus how a creator’s work is influenced and categorized based on the licenses of the basis he used.      There are three categories, strong copyleft, weak copyleft and no copyleft. Strong copyleft requires that for all derived creations the licenses from the original are kept. This impedes the creation of proprietary software. A strong license is the GNU General Public License. Whilst it enforces barely any restrictions on the use, development and copying of the software, these liberties however, are only ensured if the derivatives are pertained to the same rights. This means that the licenses are hereditary, therefore the derivatives cannot be made proprietary. Strong copyleft licenses therefore impede the linking to proprietary or non-free software, making it rather inept for developers. This ...

       It’s one click on Spotify or Youtube and one can listen to the newest releases of the worlds greatest artists, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms are used to share art, hundreds of platforms offer pirated versions of the newest movies or series. An uncontrollable flow of information on a private and commercial level, blurring the definitions of laws and copyrights that were defined in a pre-internet era. Laws to protect creators’ rights, but also to allow users to freely share information when no commercial intentions are involved. In 2012 two members of the Swedish Pirate Party wrote a proposition for politically restructuring and clarifying the laws of copyright.      In the Report “The Case for Copyright Reform” the authors highlight that restricting the act of sharing information on a non-commercial basis, would infringe upon basic human rights. I agree that limiting the use of information on a personal level should not be legal. The on...

     Pekka Himanen, a Finnish philosopher, drafted the above mentioned report for the “Committee for the Future” of the Finnish Parliament. The intention was to address the necessity of changes due to the shift from an industrial society to an information society. Based on the technology existing at the time and clear trends, such as the industrial changes in developing regions in Asia, Himanen predicted the influence of innovations on society. Thus, assisting the parliamentary committee to estimate changes needed at an early stage to maintain a welfare state.      The report thoroughly discussed the impacts of an information society on the workplace, predicting increased internationality, the changing work-ethic due to constant availability and the negative effects of a “society of emergency”. Internationality in the workplace has strongly increased since the report was written. With the internet enabling inter-continental communication and the growing a...

       The Gutenberg Project is one of the oldest examples of sharing digital content to a community, without promoting a price tag. It originates from the University of Illinois that started a collection of research papers and other e-texts in 1971, now there are thousand of e-books available as well. The idea of community-based knowledge and software was adopted by many leading to the creation of OpenAccess, a platform to share scientific papers, Linux, a software that any user can develop and contribute to the community or wikis, a website to provide information that anybody can edit.               Ward Cunningham initiated a project in 1995 at his university, to allow members of the community to write and edit information posted on a platform. This led to the creation of wiki’s. Wikis are created for multiple purposes, some write biographies, or used as a company-internal information platform, as ...