Dieter Balkhausen

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Dieter Balkhausen (born June 8, 1937 in Düsseldorf ; † January 26, 2018 ) was a German journalist and book author.

Life

Dieter Balkhausen completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and worked as a business editor for the Kölner Stadtanzeiger . From 1963 to 2002 he was a business editor at ZDF and a specialist in economic policy.

He hosted the TV show witnesses of the century and u. a. a broadcast about Konrad Zuse .

Positions

Dieter Balkhausen published the book The Third Industrial Revolution in 1978 . How microelectronics is changing our lives , with which he coined the term third industrial revolution - meaning the digital revolution - in Germany. The book was then considered the standard work on this topic and has been reprinted several times. In this and the following books, he considered whether and how microelectronics changed our lives, and he assessed the corresponding changes as a new “technical-economic revolution”.

Balkhausen had a critical but fundamentally positive attitude towards microelectronics: "So far, the prophets of earlier times, who conjure up the curse of industrial revolutions, have been wrong". He registered social changes such as telecommunications as well as the "emergence of new cultural ties," developments that he regarded as "revolutionary". He criticized the rationalization by writing, for example: "It is also one of the legends that saving personnel really always saves costs."

Fonts

  • Predatory capitalism . Torch bearer, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7716-4355-3 .
  • Alfred Herrhausen. Power, politics and morals . Econ, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-430-11144-7 .
  • On the way to a new work culture . Paulinus, Trier 1990, ISBN 3-7902-5003-1 .
  • Deutsche Mark versus Euro money. The monetary union adventure . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-499-13764-X .
  • The third industrial revolution. How microelectronics are changing our lives . Econ, Düsseldorf 1978, ISBN 3-430-11147-1
  • Electronics fear and the opportunities of the Third Industrial Revolution . Econ, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-430-11149-8 .
  • Good money and bad politics . Econ, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-430-11142-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the FAZ: Dieter Balkhausen. In: Lebenswege.faz.net. February 3, 2018, accessed February 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ " Too Much of Everything". In: helene-hammelrath.de. September 16, 2010, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ THIS WEEK ON TV . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1985 ( online ).
  4. ^ Dieter Balkhausen: The third industrial revolution, licensed edition 1980, p. 240
  5. ^ Dieter Balkhausen: The third industrial revolution, licensed edition 1980, p. 250
personal data
SURNAME Balkhausen, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2018