1. The Real Situation
In 2000, I took over the management of getTIME.net GmbH as the majority shareholder. While GraTeach was responsible for conception and web design, getTIME.net, with two programmers, focused on technical implementation. After GraTeach’s insolvency, I had to lay off both employees. The insolvency administrator, Stock, did not use the funds remaining in the GraTeach account for outstanding maintenance payments, nor did he liquidate existing assets such as the structured cabling or open claims (e.g., 43,935 DM against the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Industriekultur). Instead, months later, he offered me a settlement: I was to purchase the domain citythek.de while waiving getTIME.net’s claims against GraTeach. The documents related to the multi-million claims against Route Industriekultur were only released in 2009—too late to immediately prove copyright infringements and fraud. A lawyer who wanted to assert these claims in 2015 was stopped by professional regulations. To this day, the claims have not expired. In a constitutional state, there would have been an agreement with the public sector.
To avert the insolvency of getTIME.net, I dissolved my private pension insurance and sold my apartment. Maintaining the citythek concept alone, without staff, was impossible. However, with the Finder technology—similar to the later EU-D-S—I could refer to specialized portals behind each category. By 2003, I wanted to make a fresh start.
2. Development Without Obstruction
Since 1999, we had digitally mapped analog life: City-Gewebbed enabled citizens to network with leisure and consumption profiles as both real and dream personas. Cityplay already existed as a brand game. Without the insolvency, getmysense would have launched in 2002—a decentralized model ensuring diversity and fair value creation for the middle class. The core was the manual creation of Finders (patent ES2374881T3), which identify meaningful units. These were ready for German and partially for English, aiming to connect like-minded people worldwide. Users would have playfully created Finders; the first became a trendsetter until someone better came along.
3. View from the Future (2026): Democracy or Remote Control?
The enforcement of my patent claims (ES2374881T3) could have steered AI development by 2019: The manually created Finders in getmysense offer a precision that algorithmic tokenization (e.g., Byte-Pair-Encoding) cannot achieve. However, gatekeepers use hallucinations and anonymity to cover up manipulations—such as threats or targeted disinformation.
My prognosis: The question arises whether gatekeepers profit from hallucinations (Was it a hallucination, or was I threatened with death?). Both help to increasingly remote-control everything and everyone in the context of an organized criminal phenomenon. Currently, society appears to be experiencing a growing gap between rich and poor. Before the expected comprehensive remote control of society through manipulative AI systems, those most affected will be individuals from whom wealth transfers through manipulation are profitable.
Two digital societal models stand opposed:
- Surveillance and Manipulation (Gatekeeper Strategy)
- Structured Social Control (My Democratic Concept)
The latter is still missing today. Individual democratic initiatives serve merely as an alibi for a decades-long master plan. My counter-proposal, developed since the 1990s, aims for inclusion, but digital expansion relies on destroying trust, artificial excitement, and outsourcing value creation. The result is that citizens distrust digitization, authorities remain analog, and young people are excluded from social media.
4. GAP: Loss of Trust as a Growth Brake
Carryover from Previous Years:
- Mannesmann takeover (2000): 133 billion euros
- Due to the blocked GraTeach participation concept, costs arise:
Unemployment costs (2001): 2 billion euros - Unemployment costs (2002): 2 billion euros
Total 2002 = 137 billion euros
Forecast of the Calculation Due to Loss of Trust:
For the 15 EU states (with strongly varying data), a GDP of 8,000 billion euros is assumed for 2003. One percent of this is set as the GAP, i.e., 80 billion euros.
Background:
In the social media/AI sector, there were no significant competitors to getmysense yet. Facebook was only founded in 2004. Later, no democracy-preserving competitors were allowed.
The Real Situation (2001/2002): USA as Pioneer of Digital Surveillance
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the US government under President George W. Bush used the fear of terrorism to push through extensive surveillance laws and programs. These measures laid the foundation for a global digital autocracy—precisely the scenario I have been countering for 30 years with projects like EU-D-S and getmysense!
- Patriot Act (October 2001): The law allowed authorities to access communication data without judicial approval—a clear breach of democratic principles. The USA used the crisis to build an infrastructure later exploited by tech giants like Google and Amazon for their global expansion.
- NSA Programs (from 2001): Programs like Stellar Wind showed how the state systematically intercepted digital communication. This was a direct attack on the idea of a Trusted Web, where users control their own data.
- Collaboration with Tech Giants: Companies like Google and Amazon indirectly benefited from this development. My approach to keeping value creation in Europe was in stark contrast to this model.
- Export of Surveillance Technology: The USA pressured allies to adopt similar laws. Instead of inclusion and social control by users, surveillance became the global standard.



