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Martin Knorr

Martin Knorr

Martin is from Aachen, Germany. You can find Martin’s tweets at and website at www.martinknorr.de.

Hej there. I take pictures of beautiful girls, design stuff, and do video.

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We need to empower computers with their own means of gathering information, so they can see, hear and smell the world for themselves, in all its random glory. Perception and sensor technologies enable computers to observe, identify and understand the world—without the limitations of human-entered data.
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The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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How could adding features that people were begging for make the experience completely different, and much worse? It was a tough lesson for Treehouse: the way you design something–including which features you add or omit–informs users about how the product should be used.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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To the outsider, it looked like a stream of engineering miracles was being pulled out of some magician's hat as mission control identified, diagnosed, and worked around life-threatening problem after life-threatening problem on the long road back to Earth.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Martin Knorr Very exciting read on how Apollo 13 was saved.

    November 28, 2012
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No matter how complex, no matter how unique, your passwords can no longer protect you.
Estimated reading time: 25 min
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Die 100 Millionen sind zusammen. Irgendwie haben wir irgendwo auf der Welt genügend Verrückte ausgebuddelt, die noch ein paar Millionen locker sitzen hatten. Stefan ächzt: Mehr als 30 Finanzierungspartner, über 170 Verträge. Spanien sagt in letzter Sekunde zu. Kurz darauf fällt der spanische Verleih dann doch wieder aus, weil er Konkurs gegangen ist. Die fehlende Differenz frisst unsere Regiegagen. Jetzt ist alles egal.
Estimated reading time: 11 min
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    Martin Knorr Tom Tykwer gibt tiefe Einblicke in die Produktion des Films "Cloud Atlas". Lesen!

    November 11, 2012
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Now that Discovery is safely delivered to the Smithsonian, I think I can tell the story of how we nearly lost her in July of 2005, and how well-intentioned, highly motivated,  hard-working, smart people can miss the most obvious.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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The iPhone is not and never was a phone.1 It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.
Estimated reading time: 4 min
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    Martin Knorr Mr. Gruber nailing it.

    July 2, 2012
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Und dort diktiert das gesellschaftlich anerkannte Balzverhalten ja geradezu sich durch möglichst exzessive Bewegungen höchste Aufmerksamkeit beim anderen Geschlecht zu verschaffen. Schwierig, wenn jeder Schritt wahlweise auf Glasscherben achtlos heruntergefallener Caipirinha-Gläsern oder Füßen endet und jeder Versuch einer Tanzbewegung den eigenen Ellenbogen fast unweigerlich mitten im zweifelsohne attraktiven Gesicht der blonden Caipirinhatrinkerin hinter dir platziert. Upsi.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Martin Knorr Ich stelle mir vor, wie ein besserer Club aussehen könnte.

    June 24, 2012
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Roboter und Algorithmen müssen unsere Rente und ein allgemeines Grundeinkommen erarbeiten. Der Weg dorthin ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit und erfordert nicht nur erhebliche Investitionen in technische und soziale Forschung und Entwicklung. Wenn es aber erst einmal einen Konsens gibt, der darauf fußt, dass die Automatisierungsdividende vergesellschaftet wird, dass dies der Weg in die Zukunft ist und alle davon profitieren, wäre Deutschland in einer beneidenswerten Position.
Estimated reading time: 12 min
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    Martin Knorr Frank Rieger, CCC, über die nächste gesellschaftliche Revolution und wie wir sie meistern können.

    May 18, 2012
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It was the mother of all fuckups.
Estimated reading time: 23 min
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    Martin Knorr Good read on how Yahoo screwed up with flickr.

    May 16, 2012
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So for blogs to take the next step, they have to have people like me who are in charge of all the elements – the writing, the visual, everything.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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    Martin Knorr Exactly what I'm trying to to with Down to Mars .tv - trying to produce great content.

    April 19, 2012
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it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked
Estimated reading time: 9 min
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So stop spending your time filling out your CV and asking for recommendations on your LinkedIn profile. For God’s sake get out there and do something. Create.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
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In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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    Martin Knorr So… before lighting up the streets at night became a common thing people used to sleep for 4 hours, do stuff and sleep again. Mind = blown.

    Just think of what other habits got lost over the centuries we wouldn't even care to think about and were perfectly normal back than. Or what implications this fact might have to society. An interesting thought in the article was about the things people did in-between "sleeps". Contemplating, processing dreams, thinking. Imagine Galileo, da Vinci, et al laying awake at night and slowly solving their current mysteries.

    February 25, 2012