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Radical technologies and their significance for regulation
The development of mankind can also be understood as the development of its technologies. From fire and the wheel to the steam engine, the incandescent lamp and the Otto engine or the railroad - we know a whole series of technological inventions that are so radical in their significance that they have changed the coexistence of mankind. Technical developments are always an indication of the distribution of power - for example, it helped the Spaniards immensely during the colonization of South America to have the invention of the wheel in their baggage, and the competition during the Cold War to see who could get to the moon faster shows us the prestige that goes hand in hand with the use of technology. Again and again, these discoveries have also evoked regulation and investment. For the car, not only roads were needed, but a whole series of individual laws up to a code of laws, which we know as the Highway Code. Since Konrad Zuse built the first computer in binary floating-point arithmetic in 1941, the development of the computer has progressed rapidly. In addition to supercomputers, online platforms, the Internet, or smartphones (which can rather be understood as body devices), today there are also new developments such as the quantum computer which leaves the binary floating point calculation. The ever faster developments coming to the market need regulation, but often the regulators seem to be lagging behind.
This Seminar is to be held in English. The examination is to be taken in English. |
