Why did the Tyrannosaurus Rex go extinct? - Was it a coincidence?

Vince Ebert on the topic of randomness and why you should just be crazy sometimes! Vince Ebert, bestselling author, TV presenter, and comedian, studied physics in Würzburg. He worked in an international management consultancy and in market research before starting his stage career in 1998. His stage programs, including his current one titled "Zukunft is the Future," have made him known as a science comedian who captivates both laypeople and scientific audiences with his wit and humor. Today, we take a closer look at him and address some fundamental questions, such as... Why did the Tyrannosaurus Rex go extinct? Because it was inflexible! It was highly equipped beyond measure, the most efficient killing machine of its time. However, the more efficient a system is built, the worse it can react to unforeseen events. This also applies in business. If a company has cultivated a monoculture of 40-year-old, heterosexual, golf-playing business graduates, they will not be able to react particularly flexibly to market changes. What was the best coincidence in your life? My wife. I met her at a party I didn't even want to go to. Therefore, my appeal: Do something unpredictable, something surprising from time to time. Give a trade unionist an FDP pen. Wear a tuxedo on Casual Friday. Sleep with your own wife. Just do something crazy! Why do we struggle so much with coincidences? Because our brains dislike randomness. They are designed to recognize patterns. When two things happen simultaneously, our brains say: one must automatically be the cause of the other. Even if both events randomly coincided. And even people who are familiar with numbers fall into this trap. When I was still studying, I clinked glasses with my statistics professor at a semester party without looking him in the eyes. And then he says to me: Now you'll have 7 years of bad sex. And he was right. How can we maintain common sense in the age of digitalization? By realizing that Big Data, that algorithms also have their limits. For example, Google developed an algorithm some time ago that scanned 10 million YouTube videos and can now recognize a cat with a 75% probability. On the other hand, my neighbor's two-year-old son is at 100 percent. What I mean to say is: A company that says "Phew..." at every fourth cat may be slightly overestimated. Why would you recommend your customers to attend the Karlsruhe Knowledge Forum - Can you give us a little taste of what to expect? You can expect a colorful bouquet of surprising insights and optimistic messages. For example, we don't have to be afraid of digital transformation. On the contrary. Just 10 years ago, Rudolf Moshammer was strangled with a telephone cable. This would be technically impossible today. For more information on the topic of randomness, visit here: https://www.speakers-excellence.de/redner/vince-ebert-wirtschaftskabarettist.html