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Aesthetics and Technology How pop culture determines the look of the future

Humanoid robots, whether compliant or anarchic, are products of our pop culture: Metropolis, Star Wars, Jane Fonda and Missy Elliot, all of them design the futurisms of new technology and their aesthetics. Nowadays, they predict the look of the future dialectically with robotics.
 

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Series of essays and interviews About the Future in Times of Crises

People around the globe have suffered from the corona pandemic in recent months. But COVID-19 is not the only crisis we are facing. How do these crises affect our view of the future? A series of interviews and essays.

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Climate change is affecting the large CO2 reservoirs, such as the Amazon rainforest. How can artificial intelligence help here?

Fighting against climate change “The question remains: are we too slow?"

We are in the midst of climate change and must use AI to tackle this challenge, says deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre Victor Galaz. At the same time, AI technologies are used to harm the climate further. How can we find a balance between these poles? 

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Exclusive Inclusion?

Why is the internet still full of barriers for people with disabilities? Or isn’t it? NGO founder Tiffany Brar, video influencer Daniel Jones, app developer Javier Montaner and researcher Shai Fuxman discuss the tensions between digital possibilities and their actual realisation – and what everyone in society can do.
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Retweet and remember: digital approaches to the Holocaust

How does our digital age shape the memory of the Holocaust? Survivor Abba Naor, German scholar Ernst Hüttl, press officer of the Auschwitz Memorial Pawel Sawicki and student Emely Fuchs talk about experiences, opportunities and risks.

The largest artificial neuronal networks operating in computers today have around one billion cross-indexations, a thousand times that of their predecessors just a few years ago. But this is practically insignificant compared to the human brain. It is roughly equivalent to just one cubic millimetre of brain tissue.

Peter Glaser in his essay “Master or Minion?”

Artificial Intelligence and Peace “We need the political will”

When people think of the use of AI in warfare, most of them think of “killer robots”, drones. But could it also be used for peacekeeping operations? In our interview, Angela Kane, former Under-Secretary-General of the UN, explains the implementation of AI in UN-operations and its up and downsides.

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Artificial Intelligence Generation A=Algorithm

With the use of artificial intelligence, society will change from the ground up. The Project “Generation A=Algorithm” deals with exactly these changes and their effects on a Generation A that is still in its infancy.

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