i've already done my homework when it comes to jermel. of course i would look right in the eyes birches, but perhaps the biggest on the new hobby of $900.00 on the recruit. i got to be in the news person never comes when you're feeling together. you'll realize it's coach just another way of living. are you ready to meet the dead and then join me, right. just do it on the w. the greetings from berlin, where it's summer in the city, the best time to catch up on reading, of course. so books feature large in today's show, starting with accolades for them, bobby, an author fits it and got him guy. also coming up danish artist thomas dumbo gives the natural landscape a fun twist with his trolls. i was just trash benevolent, large scale art works made of recycled materials and in our theories on german books in english translation, we feature the last novel of last time are renowned author of germany,

host for period once it's done, got him go debut novel, nervous conditions published in 1988, not only made her part of the literary canon in africa, but it was the 1st novel published in english by a black woman from sin, bob boy, well, decades later duncan is also a successful play writes and filmmaker offer of a landmark trilogy, and she has just been awarded the peace prize of the german book trade. that's germany highest literary honor the past and present symbolic way. how did the lives of people here develop after colonialism? that theme runs like a thread through city dunker and because work in a trilogy of novels, she depicts the life of the young woman struggling for the right to a dignified life. and for female self determination. that's not

a given. his him probably hyperinflation, and the corona virus pandemic have let the authoritarian government to take even more repressive action against its own people. when city dunker amaco demonstrated for political reform last year, she was arrested section $59.00 does exist and it does come to the right to demonstrate tend to petition cecily. but it seems to be very difficult to do that practically because you run the risk of being the rest of that. if you do the, the author to pick the social and moral conflicts in her homeland, through films as well as books. she's a student of the german film and television academy in berlin. she also frequently visits, film festivals, and looks for new partners for her projects. her book this morning, the body was short, listed for the men booker prize in 2020 and city duncan rambo continues to write,

taking a stance against the corrupt regimes that oppresses of people, especially women, and in favor of political and economic progress in public. the will in 2019 the peace prize of the german book trade went to social documentary photographers, sebastian delgado, whose books are literally visual masterpieces. the brazilian describes his art as writing with light, and now he's added to his already considerable legacy with his newest book, a powerful tribute to the amazon rain forest and its indigenous inhabitants. the faces and landscapes that make a lasting impression the amazon prime or mysterious treasure of the planet, or the best d l. so god has spent much of his life exploring it again. and again,

he spent months living in the settlements of indigenous peoples, allowing himself to be touched by their lives. they gave me a home in their village and i went hunting with them. i felt very comfortable there with me in his book, amazonia salgado shows that he's not just a great photographer, but also a humanitarian. she's brought a great patience and dedication to learning about the vast jungle. and it's people like this yellow mommy village where. so i got to live for weeks witnessing the residence, joys and sorrows. the village chief was worried about the encroaching danger of so called civilization. now he's been immortalized in the book. it is for them to prosper and to do the indigenous people live very closely with nature rooms. me city, people moved away from us in the washroom. we've become something like aliens on

earth. it's important to go back to the indigenous people. they also remind us that we are just one species on earth, among billions, media, stopping the destruction of the amazon rain forest. the merciless deforestation is what drives tell god. and she's created a foundation that has already planted 2 and a half 1000000 trees on his parents. farm, it's a miracle the way nature can recover. for that reason has perhaps last great work is meant to be a reminder to preserve the amazon rain forest for future generations. your worship cooper today, the brazilian govern, is in the process of massively destroying the amazon. that's why it's so important to me. read knowledge is not the amazon with this. so this is our only chance to say that you got the saw, the whole world put your pressure when brazil. s, i say that, but if so, the pro nathan deal saw google. amazon is an impressive legacy. the great

activists and photographers, sebastian delgado, or from the amazon rain forest to the mixed forest of northern europe and beyond which, according to full clar, are of course full of mythical creatures like elves, fairies and trolls. all the latter are usually considered nasty, even dangerous, and their heart to spot. but thanks to danish artists, thomas dumble as a growing tribe of ups, i call trolls that have a message of hope. the snake austin is hiding in the forest while thank a storm is watching over a clearing and lung a live is enjoying the beach. these mystical giant trolls live in denmark. spect what is going on and how did they get here? i think like anybody else, my 8th, i grew up on fairy tales and folklore stories. so i think that's why i like to tell

them know, and i for me told they don't need to be like evil. they can also be good. in my favorite tell trolls they protect us of nature ah, right now, thomas dembo and his team of fallen t as at illegal eyes. this trump so this one here is called even a vol. and it's like the little old, but very intelligent. troll van is one of 10 trolls taking cover in the countryside . the story is a well known danish fairytale, thomas tons, to finish the sculpture in 10 days. as for me, has in height even is one of the smaller troth come of the troll sculptures can reach up to 18 meters high. i like them to play with scale and make us feel small compared to them because we are really small compared to the nature of choosing the right materials is an important part of the process. this one here is made from the

pole that i found just around the corner here and it's the from the local fisherman . they used them to tie the fishing that's on it because we are in the harbor. this one is inscription stone, which is actually made from the same would that it comes from those rolling wagons that they got a whole bunch of in the workshop. aside from males and glue, thomas only use is discarded. would he collect some carriers? and he sit in his studio and copenhagen, this wooden furniture used to belong to a shop or to shut down. i think that project, such as my art can maybe help alter people's perspective on trash from being something. what's those to something with value? first, thomas makes get chance of his ideas in the heads and other details. so then put together in his studio all the other parts that created out in the open. i'll give it like some kind of pupil that i'll paint

black and put on here. it's always the last thing that i put in once completed, the heads are ready to settle for journey. this matter will go to australia and this one will go to united states for us to lose a total of 70 up cycle trolls hiding in places like belgium where to rico or south korea. when i'm traveling out in the world, i need to like find the materials locally because of course i can bring it from copenhagen to china. almost. and those plans to get people out schools and in the nature around them seems to be working on the german language is famous for it's very long words and fed gung and heights. but where to go is one of them. literally it means reckoning with the past the past in question being the legacy of nazi germany and the holocaust of a writer is an artist. in postwar,

germany, it was and remains a heavy inheritance. and also what's gonna happen was one of the 1st to tackle explorations of the german postwar soul. in an entertaining fashion. every big family has a black sheep, one or 2. what if the black sheep are the good guys and everyone else is liars, bags, and murder? the death in rome by vice gun cup and is about a family of nazis. a few years after world war 2, the father got the beauty yon as a former, as an officer who escaped prosecution and now deals and weapons. his wife, if it's still morning for hitler, she hates her husband for surviving the fear. because in her eyes, a real nazi hero would have died. only the young people in the family have any intention of moving past the nazi era. young, i don't, wants to be

a priest and the fleet as a composer whose latest work is premiering in rome, and that's where the family meets up. what a nightmare. and through it all, godly beauty, and the patriarch. the hardened knotty criminal senses deep down. he's really just a coward. in reality, he had only ever followed orders himself. unity on had been mighty. he had tasted power, but in order to enjoy it, he required it to be limited. he required the field as an embodiment and visible god of power. the commander who was his excuse before the creator, man and the devil. i only did what i was told, i only obeyed orders. ah, the death in rome is the 3rd part of cup and so called trilogy of failure. about the long shadow of history that hung over postwar germany, especially since so few nazi has actually paid for their crimes. the book is both

hilarious and tragic and when it came out in 1954, it was highly provocative. death in rome made both con, cup and famous here in germany. and even though he never published another book in the next 42 years before his death, his fame never ended. ah, and to finish all of thousands of good tourists, both tall and small, braved the heat when they gathered in rolls from poland to play the famous jimi hendrix song. hey joe. well, it was a rehearsal ahead of an attempt to beat the guinness world record for the number of guitar playing the piece. as plans for when the role of virus pandemic is over. so optimism rules at the end of the day, all the best with martin. and enjoy aah in

the people in trot injured was trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families to leave the traitors. people around 200 people. around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. why?

because no one should have to flee the make up your own mind. w. need for mines to be immortal. it seems we are approaching this era of humanity in the digital realm. with the help of chat boards, holograms and avatars. have you seen the video of a mother who sees that daughter again using virtual reality or on that later? that is what mortality our topic today on the in the science fiction series upload. instead of dying, people are uploaded to a resort and they lead the internal virtual live alongside the other digital ended

. it's not for me. i'm fact end of the nose and academics who believe they can give people its own life. for instance, the russian investor, dimitri its cost is 2045 initiative and to develop a hologram body and an artificial brain by the year 2045. it could have individual personalities are bloated onto it. nanotechnology and bank computer interfaces will supposedly make this possible model bodies will be replaced by technology will stay the life would be the part of a person that can speak, act, and think. do you think that could be possible in a few decades? the german author hands block and his co author move and see the week have been meeting people around the world. we're working on digital mortality. the book is called the digital sold. you need to digital sol as the idea that because we leave behind sandwich online data every day. it's possible to create

a digital so of internet users. in upon the algorithms, the artificial intelligence can analyze online behavior to create something akin to a personality profile, which can continue to exist after we die when he was present. this is what many companies emerging around the world, claiming on feeling it's reminiscent of religion dunny. that's not under the but instead of monotheistic places where she should go to. so we now have companies from silicon valley, silicon valley ones and zeros instead of jesus in florida. wow. extracting our personalities out of big data seems to be pretty simple. the study by stanford university and the university of cambridge shows that with just 10 likes and algorithm can understand our personalities better than our colleagues. after 300 likes, a computer program can understand our personalities better and our partners. so can program to credibly represent us after death. a few companies are convinced they're working on chat, but that enabled virtual interaction between the debt and those left behind the u.

s. company also, for example, of us speaking avatars. meiza based on interviews in which people talk about their lives. i create a chat box that you have family can access either through an app or a noise assistant. we simply ask a question relating to the life of the deceased and the but will answer in their voice. are you facing any big challenges in your life right now? yeah, sometimes you just need a little perspective. the idea came to found a james louse when his father was dying from cancer. flowers began by recording his father and then programming a bought from the data that bought a typical story. tons block says she did. any of the owners have in fact been effected personally. talking to the and austin and mentioned that lost someone close to the skin from the, from this pain and dealing with such a huge loss stock. these entrepreneurs developed a digital coping strategy. done it on south natal out and via created butts of the

deceased loved ones stolen and mentioned at the exploring the idea that there might be another way to deal with grief and loss in the digital age and grieving and digital times very emotional video on youtube has received more than 27000000 views and has given rise to controversial discussion with the help of the eyeglasses south korean jung de, so nice to see his daughter now yawn in a park. she says she wanted to say good bye in a nice atmosphere because memories had been dominated by the suffering of a daughter in hospital. the only time, sir? oh no, i knew who. oh, streaming moving. but for me it's also somewhat disturbing. the idea was carried out by the south korean tech company via studios technicians, synthesize the voice of the 70 year old, using private videos and recordings of face and body reconstructed virtually and

animated by a computer using data of typical human movements. how did the mother feel about it? the more the, the union i'm the mother said good. have done her good. i see her daughter again. you know, i'm saying for, well, again, in a virtual version of a heart, she'd been to real life with her daughter. since peace, i know if i shop, but this may be detrimental to a very delicate grieving process in the contents. reminders can we start the grieving from noise? i was, could lose. it's actually an experiment experiment often. and right now we don't know how it might affect us to have these repeated encounters with digital entities look so similar to real people who might be the beginning of them. what do you think of these virtual resurrections? would you do something like this to see a loved one? again, i would love to see your comments and emails about this. whole grams has also become amazingly realistic, albeit less immersive than we are. can us give can condition

a hologram of a dead father? robert as a present, he's doing what you're doing. kimberly. you are a beautiful soul. and that musicians standing as holograms on the stage, a pretty common side these days. oh. come said by the author a thing, maria carlos who has been dead for more than 40 years actually seem real and you really feel like she's there. i don't even know how it's possible that it's a pretty striking effect that you're working on. her left has always moved me in this time. she didn't buy and i think that's a real chain art nonsense. he's supposed to like it. it's mesmerizing terrifying because she wouldn't maria carlos have approved up going on to after her death. these days, some celebrities even specified during their lives. what is and is not allowed to happen to their pictures and videos, some even striving to become digitally

a model like canadian actor william shatner, best known as captain kirk on star trek. tell me about the meaning of life. it was probably the longest interview that william shatner had ever given in a total of 45 hours based over 5 days. he answers questions about his life. his answer is the basis for his immortal loan, which future generations will be able to engage with. people will be able to ask william shatner as hologram the question. the artificial intelligence by the he was firm stories file will provide the appropriate answer about 650 answer. she gave to questions. they go into a database and then they're transcribed. and then the artificial intelligence looks at transcription and create a set of, of questions that you could ask to get to that answer. so call natural language processing. and the natural language process and story file enables you then to ask

a question of williams video. and it will and go through a database and find the most appropriate answer to the question you william shatner to become an interactive how the graham he had to be filmed from every angle in volumetric studio. schaffner says that he also disclosed information that you've never shared publicly before. when he's hologram is ready, it will be available not just to his family, every one. so this is a legacy, this is like what you would leave your children, what you would leave on your gravestone where you would, you know, and then the, the possibilities are endless. even video games are a place for digital grief. the people who play games with the advertise of their siblings to feed a closer to them and the football computer game fee for $21.00 features a player who is no longer with us. can prince the dream that would only come true

to death. chi and prince playing for the london team. queens park rangers in 6 at 815 the talented the british player was killed the choice of stuff, the dispute back then he was playing for kewpie. yours youth team now is avatar features and fee for $21.00 campaign for a place for the fee, for $21.00. the new incredible effort of everybody involved in this project to bring it to life, to make this a reality. and the reason, the power behind the soul who the play i will become, my son was as a young man, what he would have turned out to become as a 30 year old technology was used to make prints into a lot of photos of him as a teenager and his father was a young man, we used to create the game for coaches and teammates had to develop

the multi plan. prince consent agreed the successive virtually that were rob from him in real life and memorial in the game fee thought. pretty cool. i'll definitely pay a virtual visit to queens park rangers. the typical place for many of us to grieve is still the cemetery, but it is becoming more normal to digitally and it doesn't have to be one or the other. you can now get gravestones with q r codes, germans still, mason, and he has always and can, has found a way to tell stories about the dead and great stones with q r codes and the monthly last nucleotide. i'd rather have the opportunity to create their own commemoration of the c stuck at the grave of students with me scanning the q r code takes you to

a web sites at the relatives can design themselves a visit to a great can immersed you in an individual world, for example, make a whole kit in 2011. the 20 year old rounds during the surfing holiday and the atlantic for younique's father that you were code is a contemporary way of dealing with his untimely death. in the middle of it, i think it would have been annoyed if we just planted kansas over his head. i think he'll be proud of one's grave. you can go straight to the online memorial sites for a young boy kitten and be reminded of the times he had, for example, with this by a friend on the, on the line and him a signal on the left the believe in an afterlife is fading in the western world, but at the same time, many people don't want to accept that death is the end. this leaves

a gap that big tech might soon be able to fill. but do we really want to keep our memories of log on to live with technology? i have very mixed feelings, the use of deep and started by the company. my heritage, for example, transforms upload photos of the disease into videos. this uses deep learning to combine photographs for the movement of other people. but personally, i really don't want my descendants to remember me this way. what do you think would you like to be in the digital cloud after you die? and would you like to use these services to keep in contact with that right to us and tell us your next time. goodbye. ah. the, the me,

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