The clous briefing of 01.04.2022

The goal of digitization is NOT to substitute people. 🤖

Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean you have to digitize it. 

The focus should rather be on the question: What benefit would humans get from it? 🤔

Technology and digitization should support precisely this and shift the focus away from repetitive work back to creative thinking.

Benedikt Ilg, CEO at Flip App, calls this humanized digitization in his article in MM MaschinenMarkt.

But he also points out the boundaries that should be drawn quite clearly:

⚠️ Digitalization should stop at everything that has to do with emotions. 

People need personal contact and exchange. A machine cannot and should not replace that. 

Long story short:
✅ Digitization should relieve people of activities for which they are not designed.
Technology should prevent boredom and support creativity.
✅ To achieve this, we must always think of technological potential and human needs together.
✅ To enable such seamless collaboration, the interface between humans and machines must be worked out even better.

However, the last point in particular opens up certain ethical issues and controversies: 

⁉️ What should this human-machine interface look like?
⁉️ Should it communicate via writing, speech, or even thought?
⁉️ Where should it go and where might the limits be?

I would be interested in your opinion on this!

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