Tag: Ted Chiang
If we could see alternate realities, would we want to take a look?
Well, here we are. After many weeks (and a somewhat inconsistent publishing schedule), we have arrived at the final story of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection, number nine of nine. It has been a fun journey reading each of these speculative science fiction stories, and I do think they have much…
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What is the purpose of belief in a world of innovation?
We are reading the penultimate short story in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalation. Omphalos questions what it means to believe: in our world, in alternative worlds, and in ourselves. Given that beliefs are crucial to everything we do in innovation and science, I thought the theme deeply dovetailed with a lot…
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Why you can’t overlook the small details in the pursuit of innovation
The informal TechCrunch book club reads Ted Chiang’s The Great Silence Danny Crichton 8 hours This week, we read a very short story, The Great Silence, as we start to head toward the end of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection. This story asks questions about how we connect with nature, and…
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With better recall of our photos and videos, will our ability to forgive disappear?
We’re cruising through the short stories in Ted Chiang’s collection “Exhalation.” Today, we read one of the most popular from the set, “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling,” which Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe described in our end-of-year books guide a few weeks ago: This year for me it…
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How do we connect a child to technology?
The informal TechCrunch book club continues with Ted Chiang’s Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny Danny Crichton 8 hours We are now onto the fifth short story of nine in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalations. This one is a very short one at only a couple of pages, but despite its brief length,…
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With the development of generalized AI, what’s the meaning of a person?
For the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation. The goal of this book club is to expand our minds to new worlds, ideas, and vistas, and The Lifecycle of Software Objects doesn’t disappoint. Centered in a future world…
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