Hubert Österle This paper is a call for a discipline Life Engineering. For more than fifty years, Business Engineering (initially referred to as systems analysis) has been concerned with the use of information technology for the benefit of companies and other organizations, for example through electronic markets. …

The Covid 19 pandemic has sparked the debate on privacy and fundamental rights. But the arguments sometimes seem downright absurd because they focus on data collection rather than data use. In doing so, they distract attention from the real danger, the already existent and rapidly increasing manipulation of human beings…

The epidemiologist Marcel Salathé recommends that Switzerland should adopt the “test-isolate-quarantine” method to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.This includes proximity tracing, i.e. using mobile phone data to trace people who have been in contact with an infected person in recent days in order to detect others who have been infected as…

In Shenzhen, pedestrians who cross a red light at an intersection receive a ticket before they reach the other side of the street. A facial recognition camera identifies them, the traffic surveillance system sends them a ticket via WeChat and they merely have to confirm payment via Alipay. …

Does Instagram make you happy? Or sad? Let´s try to find out based on the QLM (quality of life model). Let’s look at the QLM using an example. The teenager Clara is at an exciting party. She proudly takes a selfie of herself and her friends and posts it on…

Wenn ein Fussgänger in Shenzhen bei Rot über die Kreuzung geht, erhält er ein Strafmandat, bevor er die andere Strassenseite erreicht hat. Eine Gesichterkennungskamera identifiziert ihn, die Verkehrsüberwachung schickt ihm ein Strafmandat über WeChat, dessen Bezahlung über Alipay er nur noch bestätigen muss. Und die Behörde reduziert seinen Social Score. …

Hubert Osterle Published by Springer Nature 2020 ISBN 978–3–030–31481–1 ISBN 978–3–030–31482–8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31482-8 Machine Intelligence is changing every aspect of our life. The internet traffic, sensors in households, in cars, in wearables etc. deliver the data that oligopolistic companies collect and use to extract patterns of the human behavior. Active…