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Who are we? - On the change of technology and the future of mankind

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Are digitization and biotechnology increasingly turning technology into a subject and humans themselves into objects? At acatech on Tuesday, January 25, experts from these fields and from the reflective sciences explored the question of how the technology we create shapes our self-image and our image of humanity.

Bei acatech am Dienstag am 25. Januar gingen Expertinnen und Experten der Frage nach, wie die Technik, die wir schaffen, unser Selbstverständnis und unser Menschenbild prägt. Foto: acatech

In his keynote speech, Prof. Haddadin presented the audience with the thesis that the major challenges of our time can only be mastered through the widespread use of disruptive technologies. To achieve this, he said, society needs to take an opportunity-oriented view of technology that creates room for responsible and conscious handling of risks. This must act symbiotically with people and the environment as well as serve the pursuit of knowledge. Breakthroughs in sensor technology are a step toward decoupling man's scope of action from his physical expansion and removing it spatially. This opens up unprecedented scope for action, both in practical areas such as prosthetics or surgery, and in research, for example in space or in the deep sea.