Marcel Reichart and Steffi Czerny, hosts of DLD08, close the event. Three very exciting days of international exchange about digital lifestyle have passed. Steffi Czerny and Marcel Reichart thank everybody for attending and helping to make this a memorable event....

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The loop is completed: In the last session of DLD08, Africa is again in focus. In the first DLD panel on Sunday, Martin Sorrell called Africa “the continent of opportunity” for further development in digital technologies. We know that for...

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David de Rothschild, founder of "Adventure Ecology", an independently run organisation that uses adventure, education and the arts to address global sustainability issues, interviews Tom Varsavsky, a 14 year old boy, about his online habits....

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The decoding of the human DNA opened a new field for human genome research. By now, the reproduction of stem cells and the control of genetic diseases seem realistic.The company “23 and me” wanta to realize genetic testing for everyone...

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This is not about sex. Digital drafts of contemporary art or architecture more and more find their way out of digital space and into the physical world. On the one side, digital things serve here as model for further developments,...

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Data handling and archival storage more and more help to work artistically in retrospect. What role do archives and memory play in contemporary art, especially in a time which is increasingly influenced by information technologies and data storage? Hans-Ulrich Obrist,...

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How can people keep their mobile lifestyle without polluting the environment? How can trade and transport be made as environment-friendly as possible and which new technologies are there? Speaker Shai Agassi is the founder and CEO of “Better PLC”, a...

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The current explosion of media is about more than users generating content: The roles of users, producers and publishers melt into each other and become interchangeable. Digital tools allow everybody to create his own media sphere. How do these trends...

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There are new discoveries every day about our universe and its origins. They come from very different approaches - sometimes, science even links with art to gain some of the most surprising insights....

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Watching TV via IP on a personal computer is only the first step towards the television of the future. Mobile TV is the next. How people will watch clips, shows and serials everywhere you want is an important topic concerning...

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There are still some seats empty in the auditorium. No wonder. The famed DLD party at Bayerischer Hof lasted until 5 a.m. this morning... Host Marcel Reichart cheers up the audience and quotes some newspapers that reported in big letters...

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This panel is set in two parts: at first, information scientist Sugata Mitra will present new ways of education on the basis of his experiment “A hole in the wall”. In 1999, Mitra, chief scientist at NIIT Limited, got the...

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After years of dramatically declining revenue, music companies try to win ground with new applications and platforms. Following television casting shows like “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (a German version of the “Idols” series), new stars rise through social music networks,...

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The internet offers many opportunities to present nearly everything visually, with the help of icons, pictures, graphics or drawings. Because of that, the amount of text declines more and more. Is there a tendency towards more creativity or visual thinking?...

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Energy is everywhere: without energy, there would be no digital life, and life would be hardly possible at all. The panel "Visions on energy" focuses on all the sources of energy used by mankind, their respective efficiency and their significance...

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Everybody talks about it, but nobody knows how to define it exactly: web 2.0. Common sense is that in the current new era of the internet, so called user-generated content and personalized sites become ever more important. In the "everybody...

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What does the city of the future look like? Which impact will the climate change have on city planning? How do urbanisation and Megacities change our way of life? Leading architects discuss their ideas....

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Digital worlds create opportunities for escapism. However, in the "first life" as well, people are longing for "kicks" to escape. Extreme sports, where men and nature become one, are an example for that trend....

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Playing is an essential part of human life. Today, computer games imitate reality better and better, gamers delve into parallel worlds. They create an Alter Ego and connect with the global gamer community. So what's to be expected in the...

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What does the inconvenient truth look like? How can it be brought to light? Which methods and approaches are necessary to inform people about things that some groups are just too likely to cover up?...

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The marketing of search engines is a booming sector, and the online giant Google particularly thanks its growth to algorithms for page ranks. But some search engines (for example Maholo.com, Wikia.com) are going in new directions. The user is empowered....

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What kind of influence do computers and new technologies have on the architecture of information, on design and on architecture today and tomorrow? How do new design technologies change functionality and aesthetics in the 21st century?...

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Mobile telecommunications are one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. More and more bits and bytes floating round the world enable mobile surfing and mobile television. With the growth of the sector, the number of the competitors is...

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Author of this entry: Franziska Schwarz Decoding the human DNA took disease research a large step ahead. But is it legitimate to interfere with the process of evolution? J. Craig Venter is regarded as one of the leading scientists of...

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Read live from the second panel this morning. Martin Varsavsky will moderate the discussion “Surfing Risks”, which will center around the following questions: International investors are nowadays normal in the economy landscape. Which influences do they exert? And do those...

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Social Communities enjoy a constantly growing popularity. People begin to link with each other regardless of their origins and ancestry. Some shared interests are often sufficient to build the base of strong networks. How will these communities change in the...

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Roughly a third of the world's population lives in China and India. The former "sleeping giants" offer huge economic potentials. Both countries are facing fast-paced centuries - not without risks. Freedom of information is not guaranteed everywhere. Which role does...

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The second day of DLD 2008 has started! At 9 a.m., every seat in the auditorium is already taken. Participants are looking ahead to another day of exciting speakers, surprising encounters and ground-breaking ideas in the realm of the internt,...

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Fiction is a big part of our everyday life. Are there schemes good stories should follow? How do you create fictional stories, and what has changed in comparison with the past? How relevant is the process of creating fictional stories...

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The countdown is running... In a few minutes, the winner of the Aenne Burda Award 2008 will be announced. Last years winner Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr will hand over the award to another succesful woman in worldwide media....

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Read live from the first panel, with very distinguished guests: Hubert Burda , Joseph Vardi, Martin Sorrell, Richard Wurman and Joe Schoendorf. Moderator: David Kirkpatrick....

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A sunny day in Munich marks the start of DLD08. People are streaming into the venue, the DLD logo is everywhere: the black goodie bags are the fashion of the day. Welcome to the conference! This is what happens inside......

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This is the kick-off! Burda Journalists and students from Deutsche Journalistenschule (DJS - the most prestigious German institution for journalism education) will blog LIVE from the conference over the next three days, in cooperation with Solon Management Consulting. All panels...

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