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Energy is the currency of the future.

Wise words from CEO Nwabudike Morgan from his book The Centauri Monopoly.

According to Samgmin Bae’s research, 70% of laundry-doers don’t read clothing care instruction labels. In response, Bae proposes an RFID label concept that replaces existing care tags on clothing and communicates directly with RFID-enabled washers, dryers, irons, presses, and dry cleaning equipment to determine proper levels for each garment/load.

It’s just a concept I found at [...]

Most people who underwent cryosleep have reported that the mind seems to naturally retreat into a place of infinite tranquility, where the experience of Time itself is distorted in a subtle way.

Although there is no trace of conscious activity in the brain of sleepers, it appears that Experience itself never ceases, creating atemporals bubbles of [...]

Only after the human race has slain all gods they will realise that they have not just slain their gods – but their paradise as well.

Excerpt from The Ravensburg Oracle, first published in 2064 on the Internet; this edition collected, edited and translated by Leela Strauss, Oxford 2185.

Welche Auseinandersetzungen – sei es um Wasser, Getreide, Lebensraum, Rohstoffe oder Energie – könnte ein globaler Temperaturanstieg von vier Grad Celsius in den kommenden 50 Jahren auslösen? Während zwischen Russland, Amerika und der Nato derzeit ein reichlich vordergründiger Streit um Abfangraketen und Mittelstreckenwaffen tobt, der sich aus Kalten-Kriegs-Denkmustern speist, haben die Sicherheitsstrategen in London, Washington [...]

I’m actually thinking about placing my brain in a nutrition fluid and migrating into the internet. Life would be surely far easier there. I could live in Second Life and build myself the perfect partner, which, according to some psycho test, must be some perfectly balanced being surely only existing as a theoretical role model [...]

Google’s new [Image Labeler][3] service is a game that asks you and a random partner somewhere on the Internet to come up with tags to describe an image. The tags you two independently create are applied to the picture.

What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it?

But it started back when Google was just a thesis project, back when it was just a drop in the data sea…. What do you figure happens, when a site gets so big that it’s bigger than the internet?”—“It’s still a part of the internet, though.”—“No …

Zitternd hielt er sein Mobiltelefon in den Händen, als wäre es ein böser, kleiner Dämon, der ihn grinsend anlachte – «Vierundzwanzig Stunden, Liebling, vierundzwanzig Stunden, schon nicht mehr ganz, mach was draus …»

Er dreht die Schachtel in seinen Händen. Kein Absender. Reinweisses Karton, unschuldig wie Schnee. Er schüttelt es leicht – und hört ein leichtes Klappern von Plastik auf Plastik. Ein Plastik-Spielzeug? Dafür war er nun doch definitiv zu alt –

Die Zukunft der Medien. Ein Gedankenspiel.

ScienceFiction schon heute: Streifzüge durch die unterirdischen Wasserwege Tokios.

«Wie alt wirst du?» – «Vierzig.» – «Oh …»

«Ich leide schon viel besser», sagt Frau Berchthold zur Seminarleiterin, vielleicht in der Zukunft, zu Zeiten, wo Gefühle und Emotionen normalerweise unterdrückt werden.