Imagined Futures: German Science-Fiction Short Stories

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

What will money look like when our society is fully cashless? How will we pay for services, and what will we exchange? How will we work - or will we work at all - when most tasks are automated, and how will we earn a living? When AIs develop self-awareness, could they get baptized? And what on earth are we going to do with all of our trash? In this course, students explore questions like these through recent science-fiction short stories. The course examines the ways in which German-language authors are imagining the world of the (fairly) near future. Taught in German.