Paul Hansel

Tag: fiction

  • Technology in the 22nd century

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    Everything learns 24/7 Is your refrigerator simulating how long a package of cheese can sit on its top shelf before molding, burning power and inflating your power bill? Only if you ask it to. Your new office printer learns. As it ages, its injection-molded parts creep a few microns per millimeter; that’s cancelled out in…

  • The wild Thimble-rose

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    I There was once a province with a secret treasure. In the bedrock beneath the land on which humans lived, a substance far too powerful to mention in public was concentrated. The locals knew little of this material. When they traipsed through the forests and slogged through the marshes, looking for mushrooms and flowers to…