Global Discourse
Timelapse – What will the future hold?

Follow the instructions step by step until the problem is solved: this is more or less the way algorithms work. But what may make it easier to structure and carry out certain tasks often proves discriminatory in practice.

Every one of us has at least one digital identity – if not several! Digital technology has long since come to dominate not only every technological aspect of our everyday lives, but increasingly our social fabric as well.

The image of a reality divided into an analog world of trams, afternoon coffee and postcards, on the one hand, and a digital world of ones and zeros, online shops and World of Warcraft gamers, on the other, is passé.

There are hardly any people or objects we touch as frequently as our smartphones. Olga Yurkova is convinced that this is why we’re so quick to believe the fake news displayed on our phones.

Monet, Van Gogh, Richter – art is invariably associated with its creators. How does this relationship change when algorithms become creative? About the new role of artists.

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly prominent – and potentially dominant – part of our working world. But how do we decide which jobs people should still do and which to entrust to machines?

On sofas and in queues, some people engage in a new ritual that’s all about self-control and self-affirmation: we review our metrics, our self-tracking statistics on our sleep quality, learning accomplishments and even menstruation.