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Shift - Living in the Digital Age

January 6, 2023

China uses porn to hide online protests, Apple seems to join the Mixed Reality game, and Elon Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” puts activists worldwide in harm’s way: These are the topics that have moved the tech world.

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Shift — Living in the Digital Age

Can I use blockchain technology? Will artificial intelligence take over my career? What exactly is "Machine Learning"? These are some of the questions „SHIFT – Living in the Digital Age“ tries to answer.

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