Entrepreneurship? No Problem!

Entrepreneurship for the sake of entrepreneurship misses the main point – identifying cores of problems and providing them with proper solutions. Why do people avoid digging into problems and prefer solving wrong problems? A few thoughts about it in this article.

Kolkata – City of Extremes and the Railway Shantytown

What can we learn from makeshift housing along active railway tracks about Kolkata, India and people’s lives?

What’s between geography, system integration, R&D and human resources trends?

Can you even speak about geography and system integration in one sentence? You can, and you must!

“Techwashing” era, the case of “Smart Cities”

Are “Smart Cities” technologies really solving profound urban problems? It seems that municipal executives rush to adopt technologies rather than lead brave actions towards better management of their domain.

Haifa Carmelit Underground Funicular – Replacement of main cable

The “Carmelit” is Haifa’s underground funicular, linking the lower city (“Downtown”) at sea level and the Carmel Center at 274 meters above sea level. In July 2015, the main cable of the system was replaced. Watch a video and still photos of the process.

World antennas tour

Antennas can be found everywhere. Although these monuments of the modern era pollute the view, they enable people all over the world to communicate, and sometimes they even charmingly mingle in the surrounding landscape. Let’s go for a guided antennas tour in some places in the world…

Original ’80s LEGO models

Fly a spaceship, explore the stars, visit peculiar urban designs and meet some nice machinery… My almost forgotten LEGO designs, mostly from the 1980s.