Philipp Weber - KI: Künstliche Idioten!

Homo digitalis and his analogue apes

Yesterday is today's tomorrow, right. But how quickly does today become yesterday's tomorrow? Digitalization, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence: humanity races into the future. Yet instead of looking ahead, everyone stares at their smartphones. Homo digitalis stumbles into the next millennium so hunched over that he'll soon forget how to walk upright. Terrifying! For years the Stasi bugged Uncle Heinz's apartment, and today he buys himself an Alexa. Will humans be replaced by machines - or liberated? Is the "end of work" coming? Great, finally we'll have time for something meaningful! But when has humanity ever done anything meaningful just because they had the time? Or are we already robots dreaming of being human? Paranoid humanoid! And what happened to the promises of the future? Where is clean fusion energy, the time machine, beer you can download? We're flying to Mars soon, how wonderful! Except what do we want there? It's a dull, empty, and mind-numbingly boring place. For humanity to land on such a planet, we'll soon not need to take a single step. As an analogue ape, one really wants to howl down from the trees: "Oh God, humanity! Where are you even going?"

But there is hope! Because someone is waiting for you in the future: Philipp Weber. With his programme "KI: Künstliche Idioten!" he has joined the ranks of prophets. He is already considered the cabaret reincarnation of the Oracle of Delphi - only even funnier. Where fortune tellers only see darkness, Philipp Weber makes you laugh fearlessly. Because the most important equipment for everything to come was, is, and always will be: humour!