Is reality merely a fiction, or is fiction becoming a tangible reality?

2026-08-21 | About the person behind crw.name.

Here is a bit about where I'm from:
Generation X, a child of the 80s, born in Wels (Upper Austria) and formerly known as "Murauer" for some time. Today—because it is affordable and the temperature still drops at night—I call Hohentauern (Styria/Austria) home. It is a small mountain village at 1,270 m above sea level in the Austrian Alps (USDA Zone 5b-6a).

Raised on and shaped by—the cultural DNA that built my worldview.
  • Good Movies: Westworld (1973), Logan's Run (1976), Endangered Species (1982), The Thing (1982), Winnetou (various), The Fly I (1986) & II (1989), The Lawnmower Man I & II, Tron & Tron: Legacy, Gremlins I & II, The NeverEnding Story I & II, The Jungle Book, Back to the Future I–III, Blue Thunder, On Deadly Ground, Elysium, Blade Runner 2049, Alita: Battle Angel, The Millennium Trilogy, The Ice Road, The Swarm, Replicas, Ghost in the Shell, Repo Men (2010), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Anon, Wind River, The Creator.
  • Good Shows: Bannertail: The Story of a Gray Squirrel, Captain Future, The Pink Panther, Garfield, Tom and Jerry, Master Eder and his Pumuckl, Pippi Longstocking, Lassie, Flipper, Mission: Impossible, The Persuaders!, The Professionals, Planet of the Apes, MacGyver, Stingray, War of the Worlds: The Resurrection, The Fall Guy, Babylon 5, SeaQuest DSV, Miami Vice, Renegade, Bugs, The X-Files, 24, CSI/NCIS, Dark Angel, Zoo, Star Trek/Wars/Gate, House MD, Extrapolations.
  • Good Games: Millennium 2.2, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, RoboWarrior, Kid Icarus, Adventures of Lolo, Oceanhorn, Never Alone (Kisima InƋitchuƋa), Spirit of the North, The First Tree, Endling - Extinction is Forever, Lost Ember, The Companion.

Night Owl:
I'm like Lisbeth Salander (Millennium), Chloe O'Brian (24), Max Guevara (Dark Angel) and Samus Aran (Metroid). At night—while you sleep—I hunt for the unseen glitches in the system.

Nature Lover:
I'm like Forrest Taft (On Deadly Ground) and MacGyver—I solve problems with the things at hand. I'm like Link (Zelda), Ray (Stingray), Nuna (Never Alone), Kalani (Spirit of the North) or the quiet fox next door (The First Tree, Endling, Lost Ember, The Companion)—I help those in need.

Always grounded by four paws accompanying me step by step—that is non-negotiable, so don't even try. Loyal family members by my side have been and still are: a female St. Bernard (1995–2007), a female Bernese Mountain Dog (2008–2016) and—since 2017—another female Bernese Mountain Dog. Driven by a deep environmental consciousness and respect for indigenous cultures.

Free Spirit:
I'm like House, MD—because everybody lies. I'm like Nyah Hall (Mission: Impossible 2), Maya and Alphie (The Creator), Alita (Alita: Battle Angel), Joi (Blade Runner 2049) and Yoda.

Independent, curious, unconventional. Ready to rethink ethics and driven by a constant "What if?". I simply want to know how things work at their core.

I'm like Sam Flynn (Tron: Legacy)—the idealistic outlaw. I create worlds—which are too real—for many human beings.

Academic Background—sure, it exists, but papers are overrated in such a broken world. We need open thinking and hands-on capabilities.
  • University Entrance Qualification (SBP):
    2005: Social and Economic Sciences (JKU Linz)
    2020: Natural Sciences (PLUS Salzburg)
  • Business Education (WiPĂ€d):
    Winter 2006: Course: Internet-Based Learning Synchronous/Asynchronous (4 ECTS, Prof. Gramlinger)
  • Unix:
    Winter 2020: Course: Introduction to UNIX (3 ECTS, Prof. Collini-Nocker)
  • Biology:
    Winter 2020: Animal Biology (4.5 ECTS, Prof. Habel)
    Winter 2020: Plant Biology (4.5 ECTS, Prof. Tenhaken)
    Winter 2020: Microbiology (3 ECTS, Prof. Weßler)
    Summer 2021: Cell Biology (3 ECTS, Prof. Rinnerthaler)
    Summer 2021: Lab: Anatomy and Diversity of Animals (5 ECTS, Prof. Eberle)
    Summer 2021: Lab: Anatomy and Diversity of Plants (4 ECTS, Prof. Tenhaken)
    Summer 2021: Lab: Microbiology (2 ECTS, Prof. Dang)
    Summer 2022: Lecture: Laboratory Safety (1.5 ECTS, Prof. Fimberger)
  • Geology & Anthropology:
    Summer 2021: Introduction to the Development of Life on Earth (3 ECTS, Prof. Hornung)
    Summer 2021: Evolutionary History of Mankind (1 ECTS, Prof. Hornung)

Design and Accessibility Note:
This website features a high-contrast, dark-mode design optimized for comfortable reading. The background is a very dark, almost black anthracite, paired with soft, cream-colored headings and a clear neutral grey for the body text to maximize readability—including on e-readers, in text-only mode or with screen readers.

The four thematic pillars are:

Life (Olive Green) for biopunk, biology and nature;
Water (Ocean Blue) for cyberpunk, Indigenous futurism and astronomy;
Terra (Terracotta) for geopunk (aka eco-punk, solarpunk), geology and raw materials; and
Aether (Slate Grey) for atmosphere and everything beyond our imagination, such as AI.

However, a precise demarcation is very often not possible—or indeed not even desired by me—since all topics overlap anyway.

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Media Owner: Christoph R. Winter, Hohentauern, Austria.
Editorial mission: Independent Worldbuilding, where the reader is the co-author to fill the gap. Subversive Storytelling to create Immersive Reality.