The new world is devoid of humour. People are being axed left, right and centre. Replacing real people with self-driving buses, fully automated supermarket checkouts and airline phone lines is like a lottery win. And now artificial intelligence? Soon, machines will be able to do everything, even generate deceptively authentic articles. Does this mean the end of all certainty? The end of all jobs?
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On April 18, 1955, shortly after midnight, Albert Einstein dies in Princeton Hospital, New Jersey. In accordance with his wishes, his body is cremated and his ashes scattered in an unknown place. Before that, however, the pathologist Thomas Harvey …
veryone is racing around, consuming, living. Thank goodness there are also some people slamming the brakes on, standing up for regionality, deliberation and slow food.
Spirituality is extremely personal – a new, freer form of belief …
Apparently, in Japan you can go and watch sumo wrestlers training then have breakfast with them afterwards. That was something I wanted to experience …
Lounging around half-naked with vine tendrils in your hair and a floozy on your arm, you look like a pimp who’s walked through a hedge backwards…
You do not need to travel to Papua New Guinea or Tierra del Fuego to have an adventure…
The architects of the Bauhaus are both brave and fearful, and that dichotomy is related to time. Time, claim some quantum physicists, does not exist …
Guests are, according to his findings, more and more difficult. There are so many stories you
could write a book […]
“Now, all that has changed. A means of loco motion for poor mountain farmers has become a luxurious leisure pursuit […]
Only those who have time to engage themselves
can also experience and feel something […]
Franzobel is an Austrian writer. He has published numerous plays, works of prose and poems […]