Telepolis

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Telepolis
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CategoriesScience, culture
FounderArmin Medosch
Year founded1996
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Websitewww.heise.de/tp/

Telepolis is a German Internet magazine, published by the Heinz Heise Verlag since the beginning of 1996.[1][2]

It was founded by journalists Armin Medosch and and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and general politics and media. Other authors are Mathias Bröckers, Gabriele Hooffacker or Burkhard Schröder.

Telepolis received the in the category "investigative reporting" in 2000 for its coverage of the Echelon project; in 2002, it received the .

It periodically releases special issues, the first printed edition (01/2005) 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 (TOE) proposed by Burkhard Heim and its alleged applications to spacecraft propulsion. (Heim theory is not part of mainstream physics, and few physicists would describe it as a TOE.) Others deal with SETI and exobiology.

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