What’s next for humanity? What are the consequences of digitisation? The Goethe-Institut invited to Weimar to an international exchange of ideas.
They are tiny, fast as an arrow and overcome any obstacle: the Killer-robots are in the lecture hall of the University of a bloodbath. A mother, especially in the Video Chat with her son, to see that the folding seat under which he is hiding, offers no protection. Later, the talk in the news about 8300 slain students. Their Offense? Maybe a shared Facebook Post, the any didn’t like someone, or an algorithm. The story, told in a nearly three-minute Film, is fiction. But it could be true. It is long machines the power to decide that people must die.
New culture of Gewalt
‘These weapons should be banned’, says Toby Walsh in Weimar. He is a Professor for Artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and one of the leading minds in this area. More than 100 NGOs, he has, in the meantime, behind and around 30,000 scientists from all over the world. You all do not want to complete with the development of Artificial intelligence. But you say ‘ no ‘ to a whole new culture of violence and demand that the United Nations agree to a ban of Killer robots. So far, it’s failed due to the opposition of Russia, the USA, Israel and Australia.
Performance of the “Most Mechanics are Crooks”, a collective of artists from Greece in Weimar
Global Challenges
Worldwide, people are faced with huge challenges: How digitization and globalization affect the economy and our societies? What must we do to remain the authors of our lives? How can we in the increasingly complex world of keep track of? And how do we deal with a resurgent right-wing forces and a globally observed retreat into nationalism? Questions, which the Goethe Institute under the title “The Route is being recalculated” is now examined in an in Weimar, the historic Central German city of culture, and in the context of a Symposium with around 400 guests from 70 countries, including many experts from the fields of culture, science, business, journalism, media and politics.
The Goethe-Institut wants to think of the future
An exclusive Think-Tank for three days, during which it was from event to event on the go, danced by foot or Bicycle, in the coffee – and lunch breaks with each other became friends and in the evening at the festival site around the E-Werk in the case of wine and Live music talked, laughed, and had a touch of the delicate movements with which the Taiwanese dancer Huang Yi and industry circled robot KUKA of each other.
Huang Yi and the dancing robot KUKA
Or you went to the national theatre of Weimar, where “The Circle” based on the novel by Dave Eggers in an Opera version was shown. Or to the study center of the Duchess Anna Amalia library, the Blue Sofa, on which a number of authors Central questions of the Symposium have discussed.
Diverse World Views
The major issues of the future, no doubt, to us all. But to deal with them in the world very differently: In the stable democracy Estonia, for example, you can do today to get Married all online. Be collected only the data that the state really needs. And it means that they are well secured and for the users.
In the multi-ethnic state of India with its many illiterate people, the fear of government data collection, however, is large. The Chinese Central government is, in turn, convinced, thus Rogier Creemers, Professor of China studies at the University of Leiden, Netherlands in a short lecture, that the success of their work goes hand in hand with the amount of data collected. They facilitate the influence of the population – a reward or punishment including.
Anab Jain spoke at the opening event
The autocratic Russia, however, explained the renowned historian and best-selling author Timothy Snyder, is characterized by the absence of a clear idea of the future. “The Problem of the abolition of democracy is that there is no successor. In Russia, this is a taboo. No one knows what comes after Putin. There is no future.”
If the British-Indian designer, and Futurist Anab Jain there at all, is likely to occur? In Weimar, she has explained at the start of the Symposium in an entertaining way, why you created scenarios of the future: so we can make the Soft may be different. The sheikhs, for whom she has kept a sample of the exhaust gases poisoned the air of Dubai from the year 2025, under the nose, will make since, hopefully, more thoughts on the further Development of the infrastructure of your country.
The future has already begun
The future, says the Australian Toby Walsh, is already almost there. And in the year 2062 machines will be smarter than humans. Volvo to quit already for 2025 autonomously driving cars. There is less traffic going to be deaths, one could sleep while Driving, working, whatever.
In fact, the life is changing radically.The question is, how do we manage the changes? And who distributes the wealth the machines generate?
Who has the Power? The man or the machine?
57 percent of the Jobs today are automated, said Nicole Scoble-Williams, head of Deloitte’s Future of Work Centre of Excellence in Singapore in a Panel on the future of work. Robots to take over in the future, elderly care and sick care. Now you can be a Partner or a partner in everyday life. Machines without emotions, the human emotions developed. You have to be happy for him or make him regret?
Not all of them are going to win
Winners in this new world will be, in all probability, who knows how to learn. And the new currency is called the competence – so Krish Chetty, Director of research at Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. At the same time, it is feared that the group of the Drop is significantly larger. It will not be enough work for all.
This is not without consequences. Now, the publicist and writer Pankaj Mishra in his article, we live in an age of anger. Angry modernisation losers and losers drove aimlessly into the arms of right-wing demagogues – in Hungary as well as in Italy or in Latin America. “Today, the people know around the world that they can compete with people elsewhere in the world”.
Brave new world of the fluoroscopy and Monitoring
For the first Time in 200 years, the possibility that the future will not be better there. Even in Germany, there is first a decline of basic trust in the protection of the next generations. It Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, Thuringia’s Minister for culture, Federal – and Europe has pointed out matters in his greeting to the opening of the cultural Symposium. On this breeding ground of extreme cooking, their toxic soup. You rush and slander in the social networks. And let your words into action. Since 1990, died in Germany of up to 196 people by right-wing violence, the headlines in the daily newspaper taz this weekend. The last is, in all probability, the CDU-politician Walter Lübcke. He was on 2. June in Wolfhagen shot at close range.
The Route to recalculate
“We urgently need a global movement for the regaining of what is called human dignity”, calling on the Hungarian media scholar Anna Szilágyi in Weimar. And a really well-trained youth, as well as courageous journalists – they can hear you in these days again and again. Because of all the scepticism, the future can be good. We need to engage and get involved. All.
“So many roads to the future need some navigation,” sings the Rapper Blumio at the end of the Weimar culture Symposium. “Wanna connect with the world, with every nation. Let’s go the right path before we lose it all. Let’s evolve – human 2.0!” (I would like to connect with the world, with each country. Let us on the right path, before we lose everything. Let us continue to develop, as a people 2.0.)