Trends aren’t productive

Here is a good example of information density to the extreme! Professor Dr. Peter Mertens, who was the first professor for information systems in Germany in 1968, created 5 printed pages of knowledge every workday for over 37 years.
All he needed was a 900ft² office and effective time management that uses milliseconds as the smallest unit. Read more in my interview with him about why he believes that trends in science and business are unproductive. (German only)

Tuesday, 12. December 2006

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Dr. Nicolas Bissantz

Gründer und geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Bissantz & Company GmbH, KI-Pionier, Forschungsunternehmer.

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