"A journalist who is also a bad programmer, stylized in the style of Gary Larson"

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Zufallsfund in einem 50er-Jahre-Science Fiction: passt ganz gut auf den Journalismus im beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert, finde ich.

„This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard dying… but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice… but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks… but nobody loved it.

[A gigantic number of] people swarmed in one of the most exciting ages ever known, yet minds still yearned for other times, as always. The solar system seethed with activity… fighting, feeding and breeding, learning the new technologies that spewed forth almost before the old had been mastered, girding itself for the first exploration of the far stars in deep space, but –

(Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination)


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