{"id":4313,"date":"2016-10-20T13:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swissinformatics.org\/it\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2022-07-02T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T12:59:09","slug":"editorial-fall-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.swissinformatics.org\/it\/editorial-fall-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial Fall 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5300 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.swissinformatics.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Foto_Juerg_Gutknecht_4to3.jpg\" alt=\"foto_juerg_gutknecht_4to3\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Members of the SI<\/p>\n<p>the \u201esociety\u201c is an important stakeholder to every professional association and in particular to SI, for a variety of reasons:\u00a0In our information era, the image of something has become a decisive factor of how this something is perceived. Therefore, cultivating the image of Informatics across the society by associations like SI is paramount.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the \u201eDigital Transformation\u201c on the society will be enormous and must be governed appropriately. Megatrends such as virtualization, data science, automation\/ autonomous systems, personalized products, etc. will lead to industrial (Industry 4.0) and social disruption, and it will request both lifestyle skills and workplace skills not taught by today\u2019s traditional educational institutions. The course needs to be set for a future form of political governance, and it lies in our hands if this will be Democracy 2.0, Capitalism 2.0, Feudalism 2.0 or any kind of Dictatorship 2.0, in the worst case with an automated all-mighty, \u201ebenevolent dictator\u201c at the top.<\/p>\n<p>SI is highly conscious of these facts. Some of its recent activities include lobbying for an institution analogous to the US \u201ePresident\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology\u201c, creation of a document on the \u201eDigital Society 2020\u201c, comprehensive survey on \u201eDigital Transformation\u201c, \u201eTechnology Outlook\u201c event held at ETH Z\u00fcrich (in collaboration with the Austrian Future Network) and, last but not least, relaunch of the Special Interest Group \u201eInformatik und Gesellschaft\u201c. I would like to invite everybody concerned about our future and\/ or interested in \u201eAufkl\u00e4rung 2.0\u201c (as one of the Technology Outlook speakers succinctly put it) to join this group or its counterpart LIN in the Suisse Romande.<\/p>\n<p>With my best regards and wishes,<\/p>\n<p>J\u00fcrg Gutknecht, President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Members of the SI the \u201esociety\u201c is an important stakeholder to every professional association and in particular to SI, for a variety of reasons:\u00a0In our information era, the image of something has become a decisive factor of how this something is perceived. Therefore, cultivating the image of Informatics across the society by associations like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1834,"featured_media":10148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4891],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Editorial Fall 2016 - SI Digital Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magazine.swissinformatics.org\/it\/editorial-fall-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Editorial Fall 2016 - SI Digital Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Members of the SI the \u201esociety\u201c is an important stakeholder to every professional association and in particular to SI, for a variety of reasons:\u00a0In our information era, the image of something has become a decisive factor of how this something is perceived. 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