Mercedes Bunz, Thierry Chervel, Klaus Staeck and others talk about the world’s biggest search engine: Google. The website heavyweight enables amazing access to information, is efficient in concentrating and sharing knowledge and also storing of traditions.

But the monopoly on information facilitates misuse. Services offered by the new browser Chrome, for instance, collects reader and user information and exploits them for advertising and politics, while the possibility of demagogic influence and the handling of copyright raise questions about the “uncontrolled world power in the internet” and trusted computing.

The talk—in German—explores what the consequences as Google expands its supremacy in archiving books, texts, pictures and videos and, with it, decides what’s publicly available. Central to the discussion is the cultural significance of digitalization and its effects on art.