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Die Weltentwicklung zwischen Dystopie und Utopie Das methodische Zaudern erzeugt damit eine “ seltsame . Spiegelung “, in der “ das Leben, wie es ist, in allem gebrochen erscheint durch ein Leben, wie es sein könnte “ ( 1316 ). Das Zaudern und die phntastische Genauigkeit gehören zur Methodenlehre einer Universalgeschichte der Kontingenz und drängen dazu, die Frage nach der “ Einlösung der in die Welt versenkten Versprechen “ nicht zu vergessen. Joseph Vogl “ Über das Zaudern “ mit Zitaten aus Robert Musil “ Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften “ Journalismus 4.0 als Parallelaktion Mr Porter’s algorithms Consider Amazon’s fulfilment centres. These vast warehouses, more than 100 in North America and 60-odd around the world, are the beating heart of its $207bn online-shopping business. They store and dispatch the goods Amazon sells. Inside one on the outskirts of Seattle, packages hurtle along conveyor belts at the speed of a moped. The noise is deafening—and the facility seemingly bereft of humans. Instead, inside a fenced-off area the size of a football field sit thousands of yellow, cuboid shelving units, each six feet (1.8 metres) tall. Amazon calls them pods. Hundreds of robots shuffle these in and out of neat rows, sliding beneath them and dragging them around. Toothpaste, books and socks are stacked in a manner that appears random to a human observer. Through the lens of the algorithms guiding the process, though, it all makes supreme sense. Human workers, or “associates” in company vernacular, man stations at gaps in the fence that surrounds this “robot field”. Some pick items out of pods brought to them by a robot; others pack items into empty pods, to be whirred away and stored. Whenever they pick or place an item, they scan the product and the relevant shelf with a bar-code reader, so that the software can keep track. Humans or Machines or Humans and Machiines that`s the Question. In between Utopia and Dystopia
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