Discussing Ted Chiang’s catalogue, David Hilbert and Arthur Schopenhauer while lubing 80 SP-Star Meteor White switches with Krytox GPL 205g0 and 105, and filming with Kelowna 0.33mm switch films.

Voiceover for “Story of Your Life” sourced with the permission of the talented Magnetar.

Inspired by Dan Olson’s (Folding Ideas) “I Can't Stop Watching Contagion.”

Video footage taken by Abdul Hafiz

Referenced works:

The Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

“Arrival” dir. Denis VIllenueve

“Wayfaring Stranger” by Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction, Ted Chiang

00:58 Story of Your Life

07:59 Tower of Babylon

09:03 The Great Silence

10:32 Exhalation

14:00 What’s Expected of Us

15:38 Division By Zero

25:39 We have no choice

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