The past year, apart from the pandemic, has been a noticeable technical advance: New, even larger systems of artificial intelligence impress many specialists with their language skills, IBM and Google are on the way to making quantum computers widely applicable commercially, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk as private entrepreneurs usher in a new era in space travel and Facebook is renaming itself to Meta with the clear vision of creating a virtual environment of a completely new dimension - in many areas people test and test existing limits and overcome them.

Alexander Armbruster

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We look back and forward in this episode.

Back to a technologically eventful year that revealed new opportunities and risks (cyber attacks).

And forward to a decade that has begun, at the end of which the tech world will be different because computers will have significantly more capabilities in many ways.