In the organizer's words:

_{The future of reading}

In the age of the machine, texts are disappearing and the printed word is losing its influence. The moving image has information sovereignty, podcasts are aimed at listening. Scrolling, swiping and scanning are replacing meaningful comprehension, chatbots are fundamentally changing the culture of communication. Contexts are disappearing along with texts, and with them possibly reading as a cultural technique. What do creativity and originality mean when texts are also generated by AI tools? What is an author? Texts also call into question the traditions that were previously conveyed via texts.

The cultural scientist and journalist Christian Schüle (for Die Zeit, Deutschlandfunk, Mare, among others) reflects on the future of reading and asks about gain and loss if reading no longer has a future.