Grateful season greetings
Towards the end of the year everybody reflects on the past months — and so do we. And what a year it was to be grateful again, with travel back in full swing and every forecast pointing up and to the right.
It is not only the growing middle class — it is especially the trend for experiences over things. It can be seen as a next step in the evolutionary climb up the Maslow pyramid, and it will for sure be a long-term development, far more influential than the word “trend” can describe.
Well, and then there is AI. It looks like we somehow reached the peak of the hype, where AI seemed to be the solution for everything — no matter if there even was a problem to begin with. Slowly but surely the shortcomings are seen more clearly and the benefits are applied to use cases where they really fit. A sober reality check is almost always useful when it comes to technology.
Unfortunately, providing intensive health care in regions and situations where medical help is not available is nothing AI could solve in the foreseeable future. For this it still needs organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières, doing this immensely important work. We happily follow our year-end tradition of donating, being truly grateful for their commitment to humanity.
“To all our customers, partners and friends — many of whom we are honored to call friends — we wish you a merry Christmas and a very successful New Year, full of health and happiness.”at-visions