Upper Middlebrow

Upper Middlebrow


Episode 78: “Our Robot Friends, Part II,” or Ted Chiang’s Exhalation

February 24, 2025

Our favorite education researcher joins us to talk about Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalation, which includes the story “The Life Cycle of Software Objects” which Chris read from in our earlier Robot Friends show. We discuss several stories in the collection, and marvel at Chiang’s ability to surface the BIG questions by tugging at a small speculation about what our future might hold.