Today, digital technologies similar to information pooling and AI are used to trace and diagnose points in agriculture, well being, and the surroundings, or to perform day by day tasks such as navigating visitors or paying a bill. They can be used to defend and exercise human rights – however they can also be used to violate them, for example, by monitoring our actions, purchases, conversations and behaviours. Governments and businesses more and more have the tools to mine and exploit knowledge for monetary and other purposes. Despite this, fashionable technology is more and more reliant on deep, domain-specific scientific knowledge.
This ‘advancement’ ranges from the invention of the hammer to the creation of the bulldozer. Many of the gear in use today are automated and only a handful of paid technicians can deal with entire plants. In business areas the place productivity is a key factor, IT has bloomed …






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