The student overestimates her worth to society and leads a normal average young person’s life. Meaning the student is going mad like everyone else. She can’t keep up anymore, doesn’t understand the immediate drop in value of newly purchased technical devices and the simultaneous pressure to always want the latest devices, doesn’t understand what these devices that are falling in value want. They are constantly asking her to update her software, the refrigerator wants to newly configure its app, the hoover needs to fix a security breach. You could say that the student spends six hours a day with the devices, she waits, installs uploads, reconfigures, watches tutorials, fails at something and then is badgered by some other device. Her devices perpetually make noise, with which they demand respect.

And outside.

Something is hacked every day: banks, email accounts, airlines, chemical factories, governments. Personal devices are already bugged by the government before they’re sold. Whatever. Who gives a shit. The student is nervous. Everyone is nervous and phlegmatic at the same time, thanks to the new order, passive-aggressive.

“The unrest in the world can always be felt before major upheavals,” says

ROB

HOBBIES: talking

HEALTH STATUS: optimal

STATE OF MIND: young man

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: interested in sex. But not with the student

FEAR: of being insignificant

Who has for a while been the man the student is in love with. Theoretically, that is. In practice, this love hasn’t led to an exchange of anything at all. Rob sits on her bed in her shared flat and talks. Something he can do well. “The world is developing the same way humans age. In stages. Before each newly manifesting stage humans experience crises. They sense something but don’t know what it is. When they then arrive in their next age phase, this nervous situation dissipates again.”

“Aha,” says the student while thinking: Take your clothes off!

“Yeah, we are at the dawn of a new era. The revolution 4.0 during simultaneous overpopulation.”