Slime mold-based computers! And yet, we're all basically alone. Great vignette, Vanessa. Do you know "Imitosis" by Andrew Bird "Where single cells would swing their fists at anything that looks like easy prey?" Perfect song for this!
Hope you are adjusting well over there beyond just work environment! It was confusing a bit at first and bit more clear on the second read and it was interesting to imagine a bio-computer writing a diary. Then further question what it means to be a human if computers write diaries. Would they even dream or count sheep at that point?
Slime mold-based computers! And yet, we're all basically alone. Great vignette, Vanessa. Do you know "Imitosis" by Andrew Bird "Where single cells would swing their fists at anything that looks like easy prey?" Perfect song for this!
Very cool story! I like snippets like this. Is it weird that I imagined all this in the setting of my own workplace xD
Very cool, Vanessa. Really like the playful use of We here, especially with the footnote explanation of the inspiration.
Hope you are adjusting well over there beyond just work environment! It was confusing a bit at first and bit more clear on the second read and it was interesting to imagine a bio-computer writing a diary. Then further question what it means to be a human if computers write diaries. Would they even dream or count sheep at that point?
Amongst other things, this story triggers thoughts of von Neumann's cellular automata (e.g. Conway's 'Game of Life').