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I tried to sketch a differentiated picture,
by trying to show that every technology in the history of mankind,
also the digitalization, always has two sides.
On one hand it provided use to people
and helped him to handle his life better, individual life
as well as cultural life as well as social life.
On the other hand, every technology has a darker side, that often is only recognized later.
The same is true for digitalized technology,
for example on one side transport and travel can be reduced,
if you can communicate easily over long distances.
On the other side, if you engange yourself with remote objects,
remote partners, your interest to see them, or to to meet them, or to obtain goods from their location,
can be increased so much that in the end there is more transport than before.
This can be shown for other fields as well, so that you always have to look at both sides of the medal
and that it is not so easy to say, if this technology will
now on the long run increase sustainability or weaken it.
We all knew that it is not simple to preserve digital data sustainably
and make them available to coming generations.
What really impressed me here, was the
was the huge complexity and dynamic of the world wide web.
So that you could not even really define what could be saved
and that the speed of changes is so fast, it is hard to imagine overarching concepts,
that could prepare these written traces of mankind to be conserved.
There still are a lot of open questions.
The subject matter stays interesting.
The topics of communication, information and their electronization
have so many facets and deeply affect the tradition of our self-conception,
as well as the way we shape our future, that there simply need to be taking place
a lot more analyses, research and more discussions, especially between generations.