Thomas Ramge


Thomas Ramge is a German non-fiction author and researcher.
WWW thomasramge.de

Early life and education

Ramge was born in Giessen, Germany. He earned a PhD in sociology of technology on AI-assisted decision-making from Braunschweig University of Art.
Ramge holds a position as a fellow at the Einstein Center Digital Future in Berlin and has also served as a senior research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society.

Career

Ramge began his career in broadcasting, where he served as a radio host and television reporter for ARD, a German public broadcasting network. He also worked as a political correspondent for Deutsche Welle TV.
In 2012, Ramge's book, In Data We Trust, was published which he co-authored with Björn Bloching and Lars Luck. The book was reviewed by David Reed in the Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing Practice in 2013.
In 2018, Ramge co-authored a book titled Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. The book was reviewed by The New York Times, Fortune, Scripted, Finance & Development, and Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Reviews described it as "An unnerving yet plausible portrait of a future in which finance capitalism will be as old-fashioned as Flower Power." Later, he also received the Getabstract International Book Award in 2018. In the same year, another book, The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It, was published. Rob Tench in a book review for Library Journal called it "Patrons of all levels, particularly students doing reports, could spend hours browsing this superb title." The book received the Axiom Business Book Award. In 2019, his book Who's Afraid of AI? was published.
In 2022, Ramge co-authored another book with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger titled Access Rules in which they discuss the data-hoarding practices of major tech companies and suggest alternative approaches for more equitable and open access to the information. The book was reviewed by Georgetown Public Policy Review and Engadget.
In 2023, On the Brink of Utopia was published which he co-authored with Rafael Laguna de la Vera. In the same year, Do you want to live forever? was published which was reviewed by Die Zeit and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Ramge is also a faculty member at AI Business School Zurich. He has also written articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Foreign Affairs. He is also the host of the bi-weekly podcast of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND.