Increasing curiosity: 72 percent of Germans are open to technological innovations

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Interest in new technical devices and digital services has increased significantly in Germany. 72 percent of German citizens are open to new developments. In the previous year (2020), the figure was only 67 percent. This is the result of a representative study on the occasion of the nationwide Digital Day, according to the "Digital for All" initiative.

According to the survey, 37 percent said they would use new devices and services if they could see added value. Last year, only 30 percent held this view. A further 35 percent of respondents (2020: 37 percent) are looking closely at new products and want to use them as soon as they appear. Only 17 percent (2020: 21 percent) describe themselves as rather cautious about innovations, and nine percent reject the technologization of society.

Interest in progress is particularly high among 16 portugal gambling data to 29 year olds: 56 percent of respondents want to use new devices and services as soon as they are released. But interest in digitalization remains high even as people get older: 48 percent of those over 75 are open to new things, and 13 percent even spend a lot of time looking at new devices and services.

The curiosity is also likely to be due to the consequences of the corona pandemic , in which digital technologies helped, among other things, to maintain social contacts, working life or school lessons. With this in mind, Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow emphasized the importance of digital participation in the run-up to the second Digital Day on June 18, 2021: "What does digitality mean to us today? A virus has forced us to take new paths, it has shown us that we are still very much stuck in the analog world and now it is time for us to learn to deal with the new opportunities." In Thuringia, too, countless events are taking place on the nationwide day of action to make digitization tangible and understandable for everyone.