The city of Linz is all about the future – but that wasn’t always the case
From the November 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. On 17 September 1979, officials from the Austrian city of Linz, including its mayor, congregated at the local airport. A red carpet had been rolled out in honour of a ‘special guest’ arriving from New Jersey to speak at the launch of Ars Electronica Festival the following day. His name was SPA-12, a robot with an orb-like head…