No matter that we carry little slabs of coms tech around in our pockets that make the communicators in the original Star Trek look like something out of a steampunk fantasy.

Tarifpartner, Sozialversicherung und Bundesregierung schweigen diese Missstände aus, decken sie mit salbungsvollen Worten zu und reagieren nicht auf die neuen Bedingungen am Arbeitsmarkt.

My greatest pleasure in reading science fiction is to experience that [cognitive dissonance] and be lost, completely unsure about what's going on in the narrative. But by hanging in and analyzing the information that the author is giving me it starts to click. For me the pleasure is when it starts to make sense.