KÖNIG DANIEL MEIER, BAUER CHRISTIAN BERGER

SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL

PROGRESS
AGENDA
Chances & Risks
AI
Genetic Engineering
Autonomous Cars
Literary Visions of the Future
Utopia & Dystopia
Brave New World (1932)
Fictional Text - Analysis
How to write an Arcticle
CHANCES & RISKS
 AI
- De nition: Computational simulation
of the human intelligence and
decision-making
- Pros
- Automating repetitive tasks
- Quickly analyzing big data sets
- Improving decision-making
- Increasing the e cieny of source
code production
- Reducing operational costs
- Cons
- Ethical issues and bias
- Data privacy and security
- Lack of explainability
- Emergence of a useless class
(Homo Deus, 2015)
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GENETIC ENGINEERING
- Pro
- Eliminating hereditary
diseases
- Increasing physical and
mental capabilities
- Prolonging life
- Cons
- Exponentially widens gap
between rich and poor
- Potential mistakes
- Playing God
AUTONOMOUS CARS
- Pros
- Increasing road safety
- Reducing driver work load
- Lower fuel consumption
- Fewer tra c jams
- Cons
- Data privacy and
surveillance
- Moral issues
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LITERARY VISIONS
OF THE FUTURE
UTOPIA
- An imaginary community or
society that possesses
highly or nearly perfect
quality for its members
- Civil liberties
- Emotions
- Peace
- Individuality
- Economic equality
 DYSTOPIA
- An imagined world or society
in which people lead
dehumanized and fearful lives
- Oppression
- Loss of individualism
- Hierarchical society
- Su ering and war
- Environmental destruction
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BRAVE NEW WORLD
- Aldous Huxley, 1932, dystopian
science ction novel
- Dystopian themes
- Dehumanization
- Totalitarian government
- Social control and
consumerism
- Loss of Individualism
- Highly classist system
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ANALYSIS OF A FICTIONAL TEXT
- Introduction
- Extract
- Name of novel & author
- Date of publishment
- Topic
- „The given extract from the novel…written by…and published by in…. Deals with“
ANALYSIS
-Point of view
- 1. person, 3. person, limited, omniscient, limited omniscient
-Stylistic devices
-Flashbacks
- Relives the situation
- Enables the reader to get a better understanding
-Foreshadowing
- Creation of suspense
- Puts emphasis on aspects which will be important in the future
-Paratactic sentence structure/ incomplete sentences
- Stream of consciousness
- Expresses feelings
 - Questions - Provides information about the characters‘
- Can be a sign for negative emotions like
fear, criticism, insecurity
relation to eachother
- Emmphasises character traits
- Showcase emotions and feelings - Interior monologue/stream of consciousness
- Personal pronouns - Emphasises the feelings and emotions of a
- Contributes
character
to the attitude towards a
character
- Mode of presentation
- Choice of words - Scenic
- Positive and negative connotations - Depicts event in detail
- Semantic elds - Panoramic
- Adjectives - Tells story as a condensed series of
- Irony events summarizing what happens over
a longer period of time
- Emphasises feelings - Atmosphere
- In uences the reader - Setting
- Underlines critisicsm - Tone and register
- Dialogue
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CONCLUSION
- Summarize main aspects
- Connect to the task
- Refer to to your thesis (if there is one)
 HOW TO WRITE A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
- Introduction
- Find an interesting hesdline covering your topic
- Topic
- Main part
- Leave out irrelevant information
- Use paragraphs for each idea
- Present/discuss your ideas in a logical order
- O er examples/evidence supporting your ideas
- Conclusion
- Summarize your main points
- (Appeal)
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