Following in his grandfather’s footsteps, Frido Mann spoke about current threats to democracy in America and Europe on his tour through more than a dozen cities in the U.S. and Canada as part of the “Wunderbar Together” Year of German-American Friendship. – Author and psychologist Frido Mann is grandson of of German writer Thomas Mann. After fleeing Europe just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Thomas Mann toured the U.S. with a series of lectures on the dangers of fascism for liberal democracy. The elder Mann also gave several lectures at the Library of Congress, where he served as consultant on Germanic literature for three years beginning in 1942 and remained a Library Fellow in German Literature until his death.
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Working online whilst traveling the world sounds like a dream job for many people. But what exactly is a digital nomad? Pete and Supi live as digital nomads.
They travel the world permanently, work on the road and are always online. Their lives epitomize the digital revolution and how it is changing how we work live.
Many people dream of living and working on the road – a dream that has come true for Pete and Supi. Driven by a passion for travel, they set out to escape the dreary routine of everyday life. They want to achieve maximum self-fulfilment without big safety nets and full-cover insurance, in a nomadic world of adventure. Pete is a DJ, so parties and big cities are a defining part of his life, whereas Suparni aka Supi is the opposite; she’s looking for spirituality and awareness. The two show us the huge spectrum of opportunities that the world of the digital nomad has to offer. Despite their fundamental differences, they both earn their living by working remotely. The digital age has made this way of life possible: without the Internet, it would be almost unthinkable. But their lifestyle does have its limits, as is becoming especially evident to Suparni with her plans for parenthood. But it’s hard to find someone you love who also loves the same sort of lifestyle, and the constant travel is a big obstacle.
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