About the movie 'Cyber Everything':
'Cyber Everything' is the latest work by Shimon Dotan and Netaya Anbar.
The two are the current Mecator Visiting Professors for AI in the Human Context in the Bonn research project "Desirable Digitization: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures."
Their 92-minute study outlines the changes that have taken place since the rapid emergence of the so-called cyber world - that is: today's social world under the primacy of the technical and digital. The prefix 'cyber' comes from ancient Greek and translates as "to control." Accordingly, the question of whether man really has everything under control in the digital and technological age runs like a thread through the entire film. In 'Cyber Everything', the fragile tension between control and loss of control is illuminated and critically discussed on the basis of current phenomena such as the Internet, Big Data, artificial intelligence and the dangers of cyber war.
Prominent voices from politics, art, industry, science and activism are represented in this discussion. One of the most present voices is philosopher and director of the Center for Science and Thought Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel.The documentary finally condenses the thesis that cyber is by no means just a complex collection of tools, artifacts or ever new technologies. Rather, cyber turns out to be an invisible ordering principle that reconfigures power structures and human interaction worldwide.
Against this backdrop, the common thread of the inquiry condenses into an open-ended but inescapable question:
What is the future of humanity in the cyber world?