GMO - Bird Automobile
Told first time by Dr. Michal Striem in May 2018.
My grandfather, my father’s father, Hans Striem, wrote the book “Das Wunderauto” (the wonder vehicle) in German.
It was translated to French and Hebrew.
It was published first almost 100 years ago. Now available again on amazon
While my attempt to rewriting the story to a more modern version, I came up with a new story.
On Wings That Breathe
Notes toward a non-living flying organism. It’s a thought I couldn’t unthink.
Rewritten by Dr. Michael Striem in December 2025 (see disclaimer in footnote)
Long before I began to think seriously about flight, engineering, or artificial intelligence, the idea was already waiting for me. It lived quietly on a bookshelf, in a book my grandfather wrote in Germany, before I was born, titled The Wonder Vehicle. I did not grow up building machines from its pages, but the seed remained: the sense that movement, freedom, and intelligence might one day be assembled differently than we expect.
Only much later did the question return, reshaped by biology and physics rather than fantasy:
What if a flying vehicle borrowed structure from living systems—without being alive at all?
© Please credit: Dr. Michael Striem.
Disclaimer: This idea is completely mine. AI has now been applied to further develop it.