A few years ago, I wanted to send a quote via an app that was equipped with the kind of word recognition technology that they all have these days. I’m referring to those automatic suggestions that, without asking, offer ready-made concepts and insert them right into your sentences. The quote...
Notions of how technology can improve people also intervene in the way we deal with infants. They are made palatable to us as healing, future-oriented and meanwhile inexpensive methods. In September, an issue of the weekly scientific magazine ‹Science› was published on the subject of ‹The Human Genome›. The leading...
The health crisis has provoked contrasting, sometimes radical reactions. In the background is a confrontation of worldviews, an ill-conscious debate...
«It seems that mechanical-technical civilization is primarily deadly for the soul. The heart can hardly bear the icy touch of metal.» (Nikolas Berdyaev, ‹Humanity and Technology›). Mechanics obeys the cold laws of external causality. If the world, if world history were pure mechanics, there would be no wiggle room, and...
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