"Everything is new in May!" - This and many other folk sayings describe in particularly flowery words the most beautiful season for me. For good reason. After all, we enjoy the annual spring awakening especially with the thought "that after the perceived bleakness of winter, spring brings with it an almost irrepressible spirit of optimism".

This year it seems to me that a true spring disruption is approaching, where in the past in grandma's time people liked to speak of an explosion in the sense of natural awakening. Disruption instead of full development?

"Beautiful!", "Finally!", "Always an experience!" - are the most frequent cries of joy that speak for full unfolding. This is not true in the case of disruption. I miss such verbal explosions of joy more and more. Are emotions no longer in? Do we no longer see the positive? Or is there somehow a whiff of disunity, drivenness or even insecurity in the air? I notice that not a day goes by without the word "could" being put in front of every message. Everything is in the subjunctive, don't commit yourself, it could be different or wrong. 

Nothing seems to be as reliable as the beginning of spring, but even that is interpreted as a threat with extreme values on the thermometer, drought or a risk of flooding in every message. A certain serenity about the things we can shape or change (or not!) is questioned. When in fact spring is the best messenger of a time that so wonderfully exemplifies patience and understanding for the ups and downs, e.g. of temperature, for shaping and waiting, e.g. in growth. It feels like everything, whether in business, society, politics or technology, suddenly has a half-life or decay time that is apparently getting shorter and shorter. Everyone is entitled to his or her own springtime thoughts about the "last generation" and this end-of-life mood. 

Something will and must change. Clearly, and everyone may, should, must participate. Piece by piece, day by day the spring shows its better side and hands over with its most beautiful colors to the summer, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. Visible, tangible, measurable for everyone. It's the same with everyday or business topics. Digitization, work-life balance, war, energy transition, nature conservation, vacation trips and much more are questioned and it seems as if everyone has to justify themselves. "It's all your fault" is just as wrong as "What do I care about what I said yesterday". You know this, right? Because examples can be cited manifold on a daily basis. They bring us to the brink of explanation and credibility, make us doubt reliability or cause panic reactions up to existential fear. 

But right now we don't need this (un)conscious bashing, when a certain "spring" in digitalization is causing a stir with a new tool like ChatGPT 4.0. I would even say that AI is just learning to run. So for everyone and everyday life, so to speak. Many millions are discovering, playing, learning or working with it in no time. And, as you can already see, everyone cannot and will not be free of emotions or fears. AI seems to have arrived on the "green field". So it's no longer just for IT nerds, the experts. So tangible and groundbreaking, maybe dangerous(?) and scary, but definitely cross-generational. In any case, this ensures that AI is no longer a topic that will pass ME by, which one or the other still thought possible.

Just like spring! It will always fix things, but only if we take care of it and treat the growth and the changes with respect and above all carefully for the next epochs (generations). 

In this sense, 
Your (digital) spring dreamer
Steffen Schaar

PS: What do spring and AI have in common? While one keeps coming, the other never leaves, both are a motivation for everyone!