Why did I do it? Because the novel deals with things I care about in an almost pathological way: artificial intelligence, the ethics of technology, the increasingly blurred line between consciousness and simulation. Things that back in the 1970s — where the story begins — seemed like science fiction, and today are simply reality with a few bugs still to patch.
The podcast follows the story chapter by chapter, but stops where the novel leaves room: at the questions. Questions about AI ethics, about free will in systems that outpace us, about technology as a mirror of the people who build it. Serious stuff, handled with the respect it deserves and a non-negligible quantity of digressions.
If you have no desire to listen to another podcast, I completely understand. But if you’re interested in science fiction as a tool for thinking about the present — not as escapism, but as a lens — it might be worth half an hour.
You’ll find everything on Spotify by searching Rumore:77. And if you don’t like it, feel free to leave a bad review. That’s participation too.
