Everything has an end, only the sausage has two.

At some point it hits everyone, now the well-respected colleague has to say goodbye with a big break because he is retiring and leaving the field to the younger ones.

That used to be a banquet and celebratory speeches in front of a grateful audience, but today it's necessarily replaced by a video conference with celebratory speeches on the screen, the audience sits somewhere.

Does the digital world have advantages here, apart from the lack of risk of infection?

We're still looking.

Even the pizza ordered online will be delivered analogously tonight.

Luke Weber

Editor in the "Technology and Engine" department.

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Is the old bastard coming back with the earlier-was-everything-better aria?

Not at all.

A lot of things used to be much worse, but if there is something that was better, it has to be allowed to be said.

For example, we just had a test car that the designers let off steam.

Five finger nudges on an insensitive screen until the heated seats are set.

How was that switch that you can flip without looking?

We want dials for the radio and ventilation, even if it costs a few cents more, and a car that can be operated without digging through an Old Testament-style manual.

Is that so hard to understand?

Finally, we dare to jump into the scene: The Olympic Games are over, they are for fit young people, the older ones are watching.

On the ice rink, the German athletes use German technology to show the rest of the world where to go, see left.

Why is this pairing of man and machine unrivaled in speed?

Because there's no speed limit on the ice rink.

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