Virtual Reality- The Future or Just Fad
Once again we stand before a new technological landmark in the video game market with the newly released ”Playstation Virtual Reality” (PSVR), a gaming device that lets you enter into the game. The interest and hype for the new unit has been big among consumers around the world. Although it is not the first device…
Trappist Monks – A World Disconnected from the Digitalized Era
The average person receives about 120 notifications each day, not including emails or spam. In addition to that, we are exposed to thousands of ads each day. Digitalization enables so many brilliant things but I am not going to write about it here. Instead, if you still find yourself irrationally retrogressive from time to time…
What Came Before Tandem
I am sitting here Thursday evening, writing on this article. At the same time, I am preparing mentally, mostly with excitement, but also a small touch of worry, for tomorrow’s Tandem Race. I really don’t know what to expect. For those of you that doesn’t know, it is a race, where you go by bus…
Medical 3D printing the next step
Humans are invincible, or so we would prefer to believe. Few of us entertain the idea that at some point we will age, develop a malignant tumour, or suffer lifechanging injuries. Health worries are for other people. The underlining dread that encompasses ill health is the idea that the vitality that seemed everlasting prior to…
Top 5 disruptive technologies of the future
The world we live in is in constant change, new technologies and innovations give us new possibilities and change the way we live. Disruptive innovations or technologies are those kinds of innovations that changes the way a whole industry works and disrupt the common way of doing things. A historical example is the telephone replacing…
The modern way to read newspapers
It is impossible to doubt the influence of newspapers over the centuries. It has been our go-to source of information since the Renaissance Europe (there is a slightly global disagreement on how old the art of printed paper really is, but I choose to go with this era), where handwritten newsletters were passed on between…
Vinterbalen – a ball not to miss
What you hear about Vinterbalen is true. It is a party unlike no other parties. Before reaching your seat you walked on the red carpet, got portraits taken to immortalize the evening, and were handed a glass of sparkling wine. Once you entered the big room of AF-Borgen for the dinner, it had gone through…
Everything is Relative – Part 2
In the previous issue, Nådiga Lundtan #124, I wrote about change and the difference between absolute and relative gains. If you measure your well-being in comparison to your neighbor, rather than looking at your own progress in isolation, you are looking at relative gains. This point of view can be extended to society, companies and…
LundaEkonom Out & About: Julius Schmidt (Barcelona)
A fortnight before school starts, I arrive at Plaza de Cataluña blissfully unaware of all the troubles of not having rented a room before hand is about to get me into. I walk down Las Ramblas trying to find the hostel I will be staying at during my first couple of days in Barcelona. During…
The Good Old Days – how change comes relative
Autumn has arrived, and as we are moving closer to winter, darkness occupies more and more of every day. Darkness may also come to mind when thinking about the economy and peoples’ lives. We have a refugee crisis, we have the conflict between Russia and the West, and the extremist movement IS spreads horror all…
