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Humanity has undergone many changes since the Age of Enlightenment, and the most lasting ones have resulted from technical and scientific knowledge. Technical innovations expanded the scope of human action, and human kind was increasingly able to shape its environment according to its will.

Previous radical changes, such as book printing, gunpowder, steam navigation, the automobile, ...) changed the lives of people worldwide.

It can be observed that the later an innovation appeared in the history of mankind, the faster it became accepted worldwide.

The development of digitalization represents another milestone in the history of mankind, which is in the process of reshaping society in many parts. Technical innovations and social developments influence each other. We can already see the influence of digital innovations in all areas of life today, although we are unable to make any conclusive judgements. This applies to both the professional and private spheres.

A distinction must be made between the ongoing development of information technology, with its constant stream of new technical ideas and concepts, and the innovations that can be shaped as a result.

 

 

 

The reason for this dynamic development is purely technical. The so-called "Moore's law" states that the complexity of integrated circuits doubles every two years. This applies to computers, which are thus capable of doubling every two years at ultimately the same cost. But it also applies to the storage possibilities. The electronic storage devices (e.g. floppy disks, disk USB sticks) are becoming faster and larger. Another very relevant technical development is the enormous increase in speed of data transfer due to new technical processes. The most recent significant developments here are certainly those of wireless communication and the utilization of fiber optic technology. Among the technically relevant achievements is also the development of more and more powerful sensors that can be produced at lower and lower costs.

Thanks to these exponentially developing basic technologies, more and more powerful systems can be developed and more sophisticated concepts can be implemented. Current technologies include Big Data, Cloud Computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, global and ubiquitous networking, the Internet of Things and Services and many more.

However, all of these do not yet represent a useful innovation for users or customers.

 

 

 

From these technical systems, however, it is possible to develop an unforeseeable variety of very powerful systems and programs, most of which are not only based on the use of a single technology, but which gain their power through the combination of different technologies.

Thus, for an autonomously driving car to be able to safely navigate through traffic, all of the technologies mentioned (Big Data, Cloud Computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, global and ubiquitous networking, the Internet of Things and Services) and a few more are needed.

The art of engineers, computer scientists and data scientists is to successfully develop these systems using these technologies. It goes without saying that the requirements of data protection, data security, the environment and the laws of economics must be observed.

Other current very powerful innovations of the digital economy are e.g. the smartphone, smart home, industry 4.0. e-health, service robots or digital assistants.

Here it should be noted that the term "innovation" can be a problematic one.

A technical development only becomes an innovation when it becomes established on the market, which also means that it can be developed, produced and distributed at reasonable cost.

 

 

 

However, since success on the market cannot always be reliably predicted, high development costs are often also a risk for digitization companies.

A very important prerequisite for successful work on possible digital innovations is the question of training digitally competent people and the disputed further training in practice. This applies to all Western industrialized nations, but increasingly also to all other countries. Countries such as China, India and Singapore, for example, are particularly successful here.

Digitalization has changed the way people interact with each other and the way people live together very quickly. For example, stored digital data requires the user to remember less and less, and there is a danger that traditional education will be replaced by the ability to use digital media quickly and accurately.

For the most part, what used to be true no longer applies today: Today, many people like to give away their data in order to present themselves to a certain public, and they change their behavior consciously or unconsciously precisely because their data is presented to this public.

Data and the algorithms that process them must be understood in a completely new way. Both in terms of their possibilities and their risks.

 

 

 

Who supplies which data, intentionally or unintentionally? Which information is obtained, who for what purpose? Who bears the risks, if any, resulting from this?

Particular attention must therefore also be paid to the question of what demands should be made on an ethic of digitization in order to adequately meet the challenges facing society and to maintain acceptance for the further digital development of society.

 

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Karl Teille, Germany

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Karl Teille is the Head of Institute of Informatics (IFI), Volkswagen, Germany, Jury & InnoGuru at World Innompic Games

 

 

 

 

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