Publicly backed science in competition with private companies. Science as part of capitalism.- Philosophy in science is over, and why we need to reinstall it.- Promising and scary developments in future technologies, an overview.- Physics from 1960 to Today, And what we do not know yet.- Computers, nanotechnology, internet and many other technologies. What benefits and challenges physics brought us and will bring us in the future?.- Biology from 1953 to 2023: Major breakthroughs and their ethical issues. How biology became the centre of science and today also lies at the centre of ethical concerns.- Brain research since the 1990s. Significant progress in understanding human (self-)consciousness or a scientific attack on something outside of science?.- Artificial Intelligence from its origins via today to the future. Significant progress in understanding, replicating, and changing us humans or solely technological advances contained to optimising certain processes?.- The path towardsmodern mathematics. More and more abstraction as well as more and more concrete applications.- Astronomical research. The oldest science in history with the newest results of all sciences.- The future of sciences/technologies? From utopian optimism to dystopian pessimism (and possibly back).- The myth of the optimally functional invisible hand. Why and how research projects and future technologies should be discussed, respectively governed by the public domain?.- Science, Technology and Spirituality. What science can do for society, how society has to shape technology - and how spirituality can set a frame for this shaping process?.