The red-haired woman with the gold-colored glasses looked at me blankly across the café table. “Why are you bringing a robot vacuum cleaner to our date?” she asked.
I carefully pushed the table decoration aside and placed the CleaningChap 7000 in front of me. Ingrid and I had found each other on the Internet and now our first personal meeting took place. As a sign of recognition, she wore a yellow scarf and I wore my robot vacuum cleaner.
What is it: It’s about technology, it’s sometimes exciting, sometimes disturbing, sometimes amusing and very rarely has a happy ending? That’s right: the c’t story. It has had a permanent place in the magazine for a good 37 years – and for some time now also on heise+. Sometimes it comes from the pens of award-winning fiction professionals, sometimes the authors are top-class scientists – or idiosyncratic young science fiction debutants. Many of our c’t story authors have won renowned prizes for their works in recent years, such as the Kurd Laßwitz Prize (KLP) or the German Science Fiction Prize (DSFP).
“That’s her?” asked my robot.
That was the reading sample of our heise-Plus article “c’t-Story: The emotionally unsupported vacuum cleaner owner”. With a heise Plus subscription you can read the entire article.
