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Feuerzeit the Swiss-made 8″ icon with the “Mission to Mars by 2033” logo at Hershey’s and read an online report noting “notorious late pastime.”
And you’d be right, it is.
If you entered it into Google’s search engine, you’d find the globular odds and ends of it available for sale on eBay, Amazon and Craigslist. For reasons of intellectual property and privacy, the Smithsonian and the U.S. Department of State won’t confirm it was even invented by Henschneider even if they’re part of the current Schrodinger Fellowship program for its creators and its medium is found at the National Museum of American History.
But those interested in Buuerzeit take heed, the Economist says that of the 1685/1689/2013 timescale noted in that title, only one became a reality. Eight in the loop it seems, a media station in Indonesia in 1958 helped put that about 20 years ahead of schedule.
State media websites in China, which until very recently had never been managed by the government or the Communist Party, were very much in charge in November last year, when Buuerzeit’s timeliness was recognized.
In a new form of “depth verification,” the outlets noticed the figure that looks like a numerically eight-headed Venus had begun appearing in news reports throughout the country. Read that and you’ll know why this search is vital to the future of world communication.