Photos: Aphinya Jatuparisakul / Die Zeit
Festival Bioeconomy
BIG DATA VS. RESOURCES
The struggle for resources often leads to violent conflicts and environmental destruction. With the increasing digitization of genetic information, a new resource is moving into the focus of the bioeconomy: Big Data.
13Sept2020
Futurium
Photos: Aphinya Jatuparisakul / Die Zeit
Who has access to these resources? Who determines what is being researched? Who controls the new digital gene databases? Jonas Eika describes capitalist exploitation in a technological world, while Christiane Grefe asks the question whether the bioeconomy is the new overexploitation or the economic form of the future.