The undemocratic side of digitization

Insights, Technologie
11/8/2018 Reading time: 1 minute(s)

Prof. Harald Welzer's plea for a new social discourse

In authoritarian regimes it is considered the epitome of democracy: digitization promises us free access to information and open discourse for all. But at the same time, the latest developments in this field are putting our basic understanding of democracy to the test. Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are just two examples of what digitization is doing to us, without us understanding "it."