Then Keller developed new concepts of "fluid lists" showing on screen an insight  into large databases such as phone-books, music-CD catalogues etc. One starts with a random view. If one types eg. "zar" the list immediately melts down to entries such as "Mozart" for example. One scrolls up and down and refines the search receiving immediate results. This is unique to the usual queries.

Hannes Keller is a passionate lecturer on the philosophical and social aspects of information technology. Favorite titles: "The computer is neither a religion nor a science, but a cooking pot - the soup must taste good, not the chemistry behind it", "Internet and the global idea" and "Will Tarzan be king of the Internet". (Concept: Tarzan equals nerd. Jungle equals Internet. The winners are not the nerds but the cosmopolitans with full awareness not only inside but also outside the jungle.

As an amateur classical pianist, Hannes Keller occasionally performs in concert. He produced two CD's which were rewarded by classical radios. His carreer culminated, when, together with Theo Lieven he was soloist in Mozart's concerto for two pianos and orchestra KV-365 under maestro Zubin Mehta to an audience of 2000 people in California.

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Hannes Keller organised a philosophical symposium with the title "Thinking about the future" in which Sir Karl Popper, Hans Jonas, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Hoimar von Dithfurt, Walter Zimmerli, Eduard Pestel (a founder of the Club of Rome), Hannes Keller and others were lecturing. The lectures were published in book form. 

Keller became more and more alarmed by the loss of jobs in many countries. He believed that high technology rivals human work and produces structural joblessness. Keller devoted two years to political studies. He thought that a flexible guaranteed family income (negative tax) is needed to solve the problem of growing unemployment. Finally he reached another conclusion. The history of (receding) unemployment in Switzerland and USA shows that not hi-tech but poor policy is the job-killer. 

Keller began lecturing at EU meetings and management seminars about "Internet and the globalistic idea".

In April 1999 he had the idea of visipix.com as one of the few big opportunities to build a great internet portal. He could not resist the temptation to jump into this and find out the hard way how good the good idea really is.

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