Hubert Burda Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

- Hubert Burda

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

- 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

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

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

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

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.

- Hubert Burda

Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.

- Hubert Burda

The 'spirit of Davos' has definitely achieved a thing or two.

- Hubert Burda

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

- Hubert Burda

The way communication works is changing.

- Hubert Burda