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  "What happened after the pandemic? Was there a point in time that the pandemic was officially over? Or were the people so exhausted or so occupied with their ‘burn out’ - such as it was fashion at that time I learned in the history lessons - due the inflation and the war sceneries in Europe and Asia that they didn’t adequately appreciate the end of the health crisis? It was such an effort to develop the medications and organize and to comply with all the protection measures. Was it an unsung end after all the achievements of the people, the health system and the sciences?"    Joyce listened to her daughter Sarah and remembered last year’s family meeting during Christmas time. “Last year you wanted to know if the data about grandmother Naomi collected during the pandemic are still available. And Snowball with its special access level to data answered you the question.”  Sarah throws the orange gum ball to Sweetie. The German shepherd jumps and catches the spiky toy ...

"Was it necessary to integrate Austrians in Austria? What happened at that time?" Sarah, the grandchild of Naomi, is concerned about the story her mother and uncle are discussing. Demian, the brother of her mother Joyce, was back after his space mission failed. The reason for the unplanned return to earth was the finding of a computer bug placed in a simple routine. So simple that it was built as standard in the most common applications and became essential for the functionality of everyday devices like kitchen machines to space ship navigation systems. Naomi stands up from her comfortable fauteuil and walks to the window consisting of several panels with artful Gothic-like colorful glass paintings showing scenes from the revolution 70 years ago. As a young woman, she had joined the movement for a more equal society and believed to have decided well. "No, it was not necessary to integrate Austrians to Austria. But we had no time to observe all the institutions and some a...

Naomi's world just falls apart. The scientist has always believed in her abilities to estimate her work’s impact on society and politics. How could it happen that she has overseen the scam?  Naomi is alone in her large mansion. It was built over decades on the ground and the foundation of a region-typical old farmer's house. She walks through the garden along the alley seamed with trees carrying various fruits. She named her invention for the creation of the special customizable artificial tree seeds ‘Fruitti’. The tutti frutti ‘Fruitti’ seeds can be designed individually after preferences.  Each of the alley’s neutral basic trees is equipped with nano-technology and can carry up to eleven different sorts of apples, cherries, or apricots, pears, etc. The trees in her garden are from the first generation of the Frutti seeds. They are programmed to grow in the trunk like an original apple tree from the region and to develop various fruit tree-typical branches. T he seeds are set...

  “How time flies. Two weeks ago we sat here together and enjoyed the Valentine’s  flower bouquets and now Emil and Demian leave the planet again,” says Naomi with bitterness in her voice, looking at grandson Emil and son Demian. The family met again in her house waiting together for the shuttle of the space station Neowise. From there in 23.000 kilometers height they will start the space flight to the next wormhole transfer point. A risky passage - even when the human-made wormhole transfer leads to better results nowadays than in the beginning. Some of the early passengers landed at undefined time and space coordinates because the systems on earth broke regularly. The technology had to be adjusted for the jump.  “Do you know which galaxy and time you will explore at your next jump?” Sarah asks her uncle and brother with a worried look in her eyes. “No, this is always top-secret, “ Demian answers, “We still have the problem that some countries don’t work in a team. Some...

  “Do you have a Valentine's Day story for us, grandma?' Sarah decorates the flowers on the large table made of raw wood with some artful inlaid work which is showing objects and landscapes. A table without technology is a rare object in grandmother Naomi's home.  It’s the 14th February 2079.  The tableware, fine porcelain with spring-flower decoration, is already placed for the family dinner. "Valentine's day had changed in the beginning of the pandemic such as many other traditions like dancing through the night in elegant ballrooms that weren’t practiced due to new behavior schemes caused by necessary distance rules or mask regulations. It wasn't the same like before 2020. Valentine's Day was associated rather with romantic situations like those of two people who meet for fine dining in the hope to start a new relationship than with tokens of love between married couples. But Grandfather started the 14th February deflorestation of my garden already befor...

  Almost one year has passed since Naomi invited her daughter Joyce and granddaughter Sarah to her home and farm, where she plants innovative new garden fruits at the high-tech glasshouse. The architecture of the Grand Palais-like building cites late 19th, early 20th century Viennese Modernism and the style of Otto Wagner. Three generations of women who are living in the time now as contemporaries but witness the presence from different life angles due experiences collected under politically and socially constantly changing circumstances.  The Christmas surprise of one of the last meetings, the snowball AI had become already part of Joyce's life journey before the mid-40 years old even knew that there exists an especially for her from the friends of her mother developed artificial intelligence program.  The AI - called after its first appearance 'Snowball' - was enabled by Joyce for Sarah and Naomi as a practical family communication tool which takes part of the convers...

  "Easter Rest, Easter Silence or Easter Peace?" Part 7 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz The Cytara-series ‘After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story’ goes on. The last story played during Christmas holidays. Now we are back in the house of grandmother Naomi who invited the family to an Easter brunch. Grandmother’s stories about the revolution after the pandemic are legendary and are lessons for her daughter Joyce and granddaughter Sarah how to observe the political system for implementing a ‘change’ like it became a popular practice among citizens in the years already before the pandemic. The wish for the reconstruction of political and economic systems had grown out from many seeds which were set over decades. Whether it’s racism respectively the inequality in society which became at last through the transparency of digital administration for everyone visual and was diagnosed as an old structural problem on it’s way to the future,...

"Peace Is a Fragile Thing" Part 6 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz The Christmas tree stands half decorated in the side hall of the three parted glass and steel building of the winter garden. "History tells us that revolutions are a constant and necessary for the development of society. Revolutionary movements are like bells who signal war in societies where the legislation stands against the changes new technologies, migration waves, climate for example bring. After years of struggling with new challenges such as digitization which reformed people's life- and work worlds, the pandemic topped the list of problems in 2020. And in 2021, we experienced how fragile peace can be.”  Grandmother Naomi takes another box for storing the glass balls after the festivities. The Christmas tree decorations contain figures, houses,  trees, animals. When turned upside down, snowflakes begin to trickle over the small sized stage-like dis...

"A New Beginning" Part 5 of the series "After The Pandemic. A Fictional Story" by Karin Sawetz “I'm not better than corrupt systems. Yes, Sarah the stories you've heard are true. But the first step wasn't set by me," corrects grandmother Naomi with a wink in her eyes the story, "I was polite and responded appropriately.”  "You had no choice. The situation was provocative not only in your case,” explains Joyce the story of Naomi to her daughter Sarah. “There were millions of people thrown into circumstances which heated up the civil war arenas on streets worldwide and in the cyber world. The outbreak of a revolution was how it's said in German 'aufgelegt' or with other words: People saw it coming. The real fire starters were the corrupt justice and police systems. The most peaceful people were pissed off at the naughtiness of the state administration,” Joyce stands up and goes to the kitchen. "Can I open the b...