It’s been a while – but I’m back

Nur wer sich ändert, bleibt sich treu – Wolf Biermann

It’s been a long time since I last posted here. The world kept turning, and in many ways the landscape in IT has shifted – new questions, new challenges, but also new opportunities. Over the past months, I’ve been following developments quietly, absorbing ideas, speaking to people, observing what’s changing. Now it’s time to bring those reflections back into focus.

Going forward, you can expect updates here around three core topics that I believe will define much of what’s coming:

• AI: not just the hype, but how we use it, how we govern it, how we make it meaningful.
• Sovereignty: data, digital infrastructure, control, autonomy – for individuals, businesses, societies.
• Energy Consumption: what powers our tech, what cost it imposes, and how we can make it more sustainable.

Recently, I had the chance to attend the DLD conference, and two speakers in particular struck me with ideas that felt fresh and urgent: Dr. Michael Förtsch and Günther Thallinger. Their insights gave me new impulses – perspectives I hadn’t considered deeply before, that suggest new directions and questions I want to explore here.

— Sebastian