As Politicians We Have To React To

I'm Very Grateful That Barack Obama As President Very Much Put Protection Of Privacy On The Agenda Today, Due To The Fact Of Islamist Terrorism All Over The World.

If We Remind Ourselves Of The Fact That Every Fifth American Today Rightly Points And Perhaps Also With A Certain Degree Of Pride To His German Ancestry Or Her German Ancestry, We Can Safely Say That We, Indeed, Share Common Roots.

Look At The History Of The Printing Press, When This Was Invented What Sort Of Consequences This Had. Or Industrialization, What Sort Of Consequences That Had. Very Often, It Led To Enormous Transformational Processes Within Individual Societies. And It Took Awhile Until Societies Learned How To Find The Right Kind Of Policies To Contain This And Manage And Steer This.

To Be Serious, If We Were Only Interested In Earning Big Money Then A Politician Would Have To Go And Work In Industry.

We Have [unfriendly Policies] Here In Europe, Too. We Have Them Here In Germany, Too. And To Take Up Where The President Left Off, Digitization Is In A Way A Disruptive Force, A Disruptive Technological Force That Brings About Deep-seated Change, Transformation Of A Society.