WISE: The Difference Between Smart and Smart Ass

About 2300 years lay between these two quotes. Although they stem from different eras, they both illustrate the wish of humans to enhance their quality of life by means of appropriate tools and technologies. Tools have supported and extended human capabilities and helped to overcome limitations since the beginning of mankind. This is observable in relicts of ancient times such as the oldowan (Stout, Philos Trans R Soc B Biol Sci 366(1567):1050–1059, 2011). In the year 2015, the endeavour to domesticate tools has still not come to an end. In recent decades a new category of technology, computing, has become ubiquitous and offers hitherto undreamed new possibilities to enhance each and every area of life, also in the home.

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