''Telepolis'' is a German

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

magazine, published by the Heinz Heise Verlag since the beginning of 1996.Heise-gruppe.de
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Armin Medosch Armin Medosch (1962 – 2017) was an Austrian artist, curator, theorist and critic working in the fields of net.art, new media art and DiY networking. Biography Medosch was born in Graz. He received his PhD from the Goldsmiths with researc ...

and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and general politics and media. Other contributors include

Mathias Bröckers Mathias Bröckers (born 26 June 1954) is a German journalist, publicist, blogger, political blogger and author, co-author or editor of political monographs, and novels (with Sven Böttcher). He was co-founder, culture and science editor of the ...

Gabriele Hooffacker Gabriele Hooffacker (born February 10, 1959) is a German journalist, journalism teacher and a professor for specifics of media at Leipzig University of Applied Science. Her research interests are online media as well as interactive and participati ...

Burkhard Schröder Burkhard Schröder is a German journalist based in Berlin. From 2005 to 2007, he was the editor of Berliner Journalisten. Life Schroeder writes for the online magazine Telepolis and deals primarily with the themes of Internet culture, Internet ...

. ''Telepolis'' received the European prize for online journalism in the category "investigative reporting" in 2000 for its coverage of the

Echelon ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement:Given the 5 dialects that use ...

project; in 2002, it received the Online Grimme prize. It periodically releases special issues, the first printed edition (January 2005) being on "Aliens - how researchers and space travellers want to uncover their presence." One of the articles in this edition, perhaps the most daring, described the so-called

theory of everything A theory of everything (TOE or TOE/ToE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory or master theory is a hypothetical, singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all asp ...

(TOE) proposed by

Burkhard Heim Burkhard Heim (; 9 February 1925 – 14 January 2001) was a German theoretical physicist. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory. One of his childhood ambitions was to develop a method of s ...

and its alleged applications to

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. (

Heim theory Heim theory, first proposed by German physicist Burkhard Heim publicly in 1957, is an attempt to develop a theory of everything in theoretical physics. The theory claims to bridge some of the disagreements between quantum mechanics and general rel ...

is not part of mainstream physics, and few physicists would describe it as a TOE.) Others deal with

SETI The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other p ...

and

exobiology Astrobiology, and the related field of exobiology, is an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. Astrobiology is the multidisciplinary field that investig ...

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