Not a likable character, but I liked his opinions. He also said something about people having too much time on their hands and nothing doing. Then he starts another dry dialogue about his speech about the old 2 party left/right rhetoric that it’s sort of a washed out paradigm from the French monarchs or whatever. Hamish, in audience of some 40,000 people, offers his conclusions. While scientists are pushing in a direction to take away what makes us unique, and even for longer life, Mr. Meanwhile, Hamish something-or-other is a spokesman and celebrity outspoken against the “curing” of the autist/savant plague overtaking Earth. The stone only speaks to Bin, in Putonghua. In Asia, a farmer named Peng Xiang Bin has discovered a rock, the Livingstone Object, and this is believed to be the true feedback from true ET’s, while the others must be ersatz, considering they’re throwing out chain letter’s. They inspire believers and skeptics both to consider the implications, posting questions on message boards for this entity (one artifact is a buddha figure, and the other is an animatronic parrot). Which can speak, and claim to be transmissions from ET’s communicating with Earth. While relics, artifacts and other curiosities are uncovered in Havana, Asia, etc.
So, getting into that, I’ll outline the plot a little bit. I’ve really been dabbling in a lot of skeptic literature lately. Speaking of which, what I like about Brin is that he can be very skeptical. Sato, meanwhile, considers the tower to delay progress- by diversifying our language, we have only recently begun to work together across the diaspora of culture… I rather think it was good for us to slow down and force us to think about obstacles hindering our progress, because too much too fast is definitely a trajectory toward extinction.
Maybe most people conjecture that it was an act of fury, I haven’t really thought about it. This book really captured my attention when Sato discusses the tower of babel with Tor. Ultimately, Existence (2012) is about communication.
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