Artificial Intelligence (AI) suddenly became widespread in application with the successful launch of ChatGPT (some people even now say that technology is at its breakthrough, having its ChatGPT moment). No aspect of work-life remains unaffected by this new technology: AI helps to improve texts, create images, recognize forms on images, help analyze complex and large…
Facing climate change and its consequences is usually discussed in terms of the technological challenges we have to face. However, any effort can only succeed with most of the population favoring the necessary changes. In public debate, the agreement of broad parts of society is often just a priori assumed – a state, however, which is not…
Electricity has been a natural part of civilized life for decades, yet almost nobody knows how the grid works. While this is a larger topic, today we discuss the increasing challenge of keeping the balance: The electrical grid always has to balance demand and supply. Yet, hectic daily life is full of constant changes: Lights…
Introduction Climate change and its consequences are a central issue at this time. Whether we are talking about direct impacts that have already been felt, such as forest fires in Australia in 2019 or in Canada recently, droughts and torrential floods; or about the political-technical component: debates about the expansion of renewable energy, the future…