Do Facebook & Co endanger our democracy? How fair and just can algorithms be? And will German small and medium-sized businesses get left behind in the face of Industry 4.0? Thomas Prinzler discusses these and other questions about the consequences of digitisation with his guests: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann from the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Prof. Sebastian Pokutta from Zuse Institute Berlin and Prof. Dr. Eckart Uhlmann from the Fraunhofer IPK.

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The podcast was recorded in memory of Konrad Zuse and the 25th anniversary of his death on December 18, 2020 at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). The group photo (above) was taken in front of the supercomputer "Lise", named after Lise Meitner. The computer has 1270 computing nodes with a total of 121,920 computing cores.

Photo: rbb/Gundula Krause 2020