Why the world was reformatted – and still is
Digitalisation has changed our lives as fundamentally as the use of fire and the invention of the wheel.Step by step, the world has been transferred into the digital space of machines. Historian David Gugerli shows how this occurred. Meanwhile the world is digital, traditional activities and cultural techniques such as archiving or calculating have gained new significance, society is planned and developed by computers. Their systems have become so complex that the computers have to service themselves. In addition, digitalisation is a permanent, irreversible process – and we have to keep reformatting the world and ourselves.
