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. This is a follow-up and it's divided into two separate parts which both are related to our master's level project courses and to our students' excellent work. Normal humans need not apply I've written about the course DM2571, "Future of Media" many   many   many times on the blog, including several times this past autumn when the course was given for the very last time . There has also been quite a few spin-off projects from the course of which only a few have been documented on the blog such as my realisation that I had been working with "Design Fiction" in my course and that I just had to go to that workshop at the CHI conference back in 2014 as well as the short spin-off academic paper, " Smart Magic City Run " that was based on one the student projects when we worked with "The Future of Computer Games" (2016). The topic of the latest and the last course (2017) was "The Future of Work" and the quality of the s...

. I don't think I've written about it before but I don't work at the KTH School of Computer Science and Communication any longer. That school has been merged with two other schools (ICT and Electrical Engineering) and as of the first of January I now work at the much larger (and presumably better) School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ( EECS ). The new school had its first "Teachers' day" this past week and I was asked to attend since my colleague Elina couldn't. I understand it might be hard to plan, but my critique is that the program for these kinds of events is to a higher extent shaped by the ideas of someone else (higher up in the hierarchy) about what I "need to know" rather than by teachers' ideas about what we together need to discuss, know and do to become a better teacher and improve the quality of our courses (and the educational programmes they are part of). For further critique, see my blog posts from back in 201...

. "Where's the limit?" I've been to two breakfast seminars lately: - " Where's the limit? " about limitless work in the digital age (organised by the think tank Futurion  on January 24) - " Artificial intelligence: The new superpower " about the disruptive power of AI (organised by the union Jusek  on March 8) Both seminars build on the same concept; invite people for breakfast and for a morning talk. I think the basic concept is great but it feels like I'm usually hard pressed to attend breakfast talks due to a generally high work load and many specific commitments and deadlines. But I'm on sabbatical this term and thus have the time to do some "random" things I might not otherwise do. Seminar 1: Where's the limit? The seminar " Where's the limit? " was organised by the think tank Futurion - the think tank for the future (of) working life. I just read up on who they are and (for example) found out Futurion ...

. I read the three books below 15 months ago, between November and mid-December 2016. All three books are written by Herman Scheer and instead of writing three separate texts, I write one longer text below about all the three books. The asterisks (*) represent the number of quotes that can be found further down in this blog post.  Here's the previous blog post  about books I have read. ************************* Hermann Scheer's  book " A solar manifesto " was published in German in 1993 and in English in 1995 but I read the second, updated English-language edition from 2001. Hermann Scheer (1944-2010) had a ph.d. in political science, was a member of the German parliament (representing the social democrats from 1980 until his death) and was a solar energy activist as President of Eurosolar (European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (Wikipedia in English , German ). In the English-language foreword of his...