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Technological Futures: A Conversation
Ted Chiang and Agnieszka Kurant
e-flux Notes
Posted: April 17, 2024
Category
Technology, Capitalism, Labor & Work
Subjects
Artificial intelligence, Futures
Facing the Future
Ted Chiang
e-flux Notes
Posted: September 12, 2023
Category
Philosophy
Subjects
Science, Science Fiction, Love
The Great Silence
Ted Chiang and Allora & Calzadilla
The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created an ear capable of hearing across the universe.
But I and my fellow parrots are right here. Why aren’t they interested in listening to our voices?
We’re a non-human species capable of communicating with them. Aren’t we exactly what humans are looking for?
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The universe is so vast that intelligent life must surely have arisen many times….
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, The Cosmos, Animals