Technosphäre

What happens when technologies and techniques become planetary actors? In the course of the 20th century, a new component of the Earth system has been established in the form of the technosphere, comparable in its power and function to the biosphere or hydrosphere. The coincidence of natural environments with technical infrastructures and the almost uncontrollable evolutionary dynamics of a growing "technological biodiversity" pose new questions about the initiations and modes of operation of an all-present of the technical: How do the edges of what is life shift? What autonomies does technology possess? What design spaces open up or close with the new world structure?