Jischa's lecture is part of the 28th international conference on environmental informatics "EnviroInfo", which is being held at the university from 10 to 12 September with over 150 participants.
Prof. Dr Michael Jischa, Honorary President of the German Club of Rome Society, will speak about the effects of technological progress on Wednesday, 10 September at 10.00 a.m. at the University of Oldenburg (Haarentor campus, Lecture Centre A14, Lecture Halls 1 and 2). Following his public lecture entitled "Technology drives civilisation dynamics - but do we have a target?", Jischa will be available for interviews. Jischa's lecture is part of the 28th international conference on environmental informatics "EnviroInfo", which is being held at the university from 10 to 12 September with over 150 participants. University President Prof. Dr Katharina Al-Shamery will open the conference on Wednesday, 10 September at 9.30 a.m. in the Lecture Hall Centre.
Technological progress has a direct impact on our work and our lives and accelerates their dynamics. As a result, the present and the future are moving ever closer together: In his lecture, Jischa takes a critical look at this development and questions the effects of technological progress on a globalised world in the areas of finance, energy and ecology. He explores the questions of who benefits from these developments, who even drives them and what the criteria are for these accelerated processes.
Michael F. Jischa, born in Hamburg in 1937, studied mechanical engineering in Hamburg and Karlsruhe after completing an apprenticeship as a motor vehicle mechanic. In 1971, he habilitated at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on fluid mechanics. From 1981 until his retirement in 2002, he held the chair of Technical Mechanics at Clausthal University of Technology. From 1998 to 2006, Jischa was President of the German Club of Rome Society and subsequently its Honorary President.