Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies. – Hubert Burda
Everything has gotten less expensive. Digitization has made content, whether it’s print or music, less costly. Today, anyone can read the news for free online. – Hubert Burda
Frank Schirrmacher’s passing is a great loss. Among the intellectuals, he, along with Friedrich Kittler, was the only one who understood the philosophical dimensions of the Internet. – Hubert Burda
When Arianna Huffington founded ‘The Huffington Post’ in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began. – Hubert Burda
Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems. – Hubert Burda
Everything that exists is information, and everything that is informative also exists. The infosphere is not a virtual space that is distinct from the real world. Rather, the world itself is increasingly being considered an information space and part of the infosphere. – Hubert Burda
Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information. – Hubert Burda
The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s data. – Hubert Burda
Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems. – Hubert Burda
Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to see that Amazon has become the world’s biggest retail company. – Hubert Burda
The mobile business in particular is something we must take seriously. I see tremendous prospects for all those transactions that can be handled on mobile phones. – Hubert Burda
We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new. – Hubert Burda
