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Vint Cerf Informatiker ARCHIV Dezember 2013 (Foto: EPA/PAWEL SUPERNAK POLAND OU)

Utopia

Opinion: If you think software code is ethically neutral, you're lying to yourself

Google evangelist, Vinton Cerf, thinks there's no room for philosophical thinking in programming self-driving cars. Just tell them not to hit things and we'll be fine. DW's Zulfikar Abbany takes issue. 

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Technology For Change

How technology can change the refugee crisis

3D printing of artificial limbs, skyping with a doctor 3,000 kilometers away, or simply reconnecting with the family – for refugees, digital services hold solutions for their pressing needs. 

Computer Z3 replica

How It All Started

Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started with the Z3 computer 75 years ago

On May 12, 1941, Konrad Zuse presented the Z3 - the first automatic, programmable computer. It didn't survive the war. But his ideas did, giving us computing as we know it. 

Deutschland Jan Falkenberg auf der Messe Hannover

Race With The Machine

Future co-working: a space where humans and robots will learn from each other?

The fear is that robots will replace humans in the workplace. But engineers at Technical University Dresden think robots and humans can collaborate - via wearable technology for humans to train robots. 

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At Two Ends

Loose ends: digitalization could 'make the world a better place' or end everything

It's a tale of many sides. Most often we only get the positives of digitalization, while those speaking for the negative are hauled off to a padded cell. But a Berlin summit wants us all to come together. 

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Robots teach refugee kids German

An EU project is bringing scientists, linguists and educators together to design robots that can teach children German.  

Shift - DW's weekly magazine on Living in the Digital Age

Apps that don't collect your data

Virus protection for smartphones

Automation

Living in The Glass Cage: why our drive to automation needs an urgent re-think

Roboter

Self-driving cars, robotics and automation may sound utopian to you. But author Nicholas Carr says we're in danger of ceding too much responsibility, including complex moral choices, to machines. 

Fingertap Of Desire

Internet under threat: How the closing of the Net is within a 'fingertap of desire'

Internet and computer users around a table

Have we cut a Faustian pact with network providers and content platforms, relinquishing privacy for the pleasures of a "fingertap of desire"? Maybe. But Internet expert Monica Horten says it's not too late. 

Social Media And Politics

Political Turbulence: we're 'dripping with data' and it may make democracy better

USA Unruhen in Ferguson Missouri Jahrestag

Do social media shape collective action? Professor Helen Margetts, co-author of a new book called "Political Turbulence" says they do. By allowing us to make "micro-donations" it's easy to join a cause. 

Videocassettes and a videorecorder from 2005

Early Redundancy

Video tape recorders hit the market 60 years ago

In 1956, the first video tape recorders hit the market. It was almost another 10 years before they became part of "home entertainment." Bet you've still got a few VHS tapes lying around…