"AI: We will live – well, live – when the rain and the cold come, when the heat is burning up the trees, we will be here, while you are on the road – looking for the better world – we will still be here when it has finally gone quiet. When the servers and the devices laugh."
Sibylle Berg’s new play is dark, clear-sighted and at the same entertaining – even if there is not much hope for a happy ending. A generation of all too casually technophile digital nomads has made a present of their lives to a couple of helpful AIs and affably approachable tech giants. What they have left to the next generation is a world where real life and virtual reality have melded. Both are no longer chiefly arranged by people, but by AIs. "Person" now has to deal with the fact that this metaverse has not turned out to be a Garden of Eden, but rather a spookily precise likeness of the old world. How could this happen? What had aimed to become more beautiful, just and peaceful is now reproducing the old rules and cruelties. Literally nothing of digital minimalism’s glamour remains when the cloud is suddenly switched off or electricity blacks out.
The German-Swiss dramatist SIBYLLE BERG is not only one of the most succinct voices of contemporary theatre but also a renowned columnist and novelist. Sibylle Berg often explores the topic of neo-liberal intensification of social injustices and the contributions which technologies make towards this development.
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- Jo Jakob Hübner Video
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