Christoph Schneider talks about future societal potential of open technologies. He is interested in the openness of the future and how knowledge and technology entangle in shaping the future. Research, especially technology assessment, should engage in contests for better (techno-social) worlds, he says.

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Christoph Schneider is co-founder of FabLab in Karlsruhe. From 2012 until 2017, he worked as research assistant at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at KIT. In March he completed his Ph.D. at the Munich Center for Technology in Society of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Since April 2017, Christoph Schneider works as Post-Doc at the Chair of Sociology of Science at the TUM. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx