Lessons Learned from Digital-Only Experiences

Abstract Digitisation includes technical systems that communicate with each other but can only communicate the characters for which input and output interfaces are available. That is a fraction of what human communication is all about. The resulting lack of contact bothers us and we find it inadequate. In times of Covid-19 we have learned that the longer the phases of exclusively digitally executed workflows and processes last, the more we realise that we lack activities that do not require digital technology, as it was a matter of course before Corona. This leads us to ask what it means when we become avatars or robots of ourselves. The following demonstrations of an exclusively digitally organised summer festival and a fully digitised library can give us insights into the purely digital perspective.