Journey to the Future of Light

A short power cut. The journalist Carla Aura sits for several minutes in the dark. When the light goes on again, she begins to delve into the history and future of artificial light. She questions astronomers, biologists, physicists, architects and engineers, and not only finds out how people transformed night into day but also how modern lighting technology based on LED functions, and the chances offered by the new revolution in light. Based on a fictitious framework plot, the technology journalist Johannes Winterhagen accompanies his readers on a journey to the future of light, describing complex technical and physical correlations so that they can be understood by all.