What’s Expected Of Us
- Eloi Silver Medal
- by Ted Chiang
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “What’s Expected Of Us” by Ted Chiang, in Nature, 7 July 2005.
A warning comes from the future about a toy that flashes a green led exactly one second before you press a button. I wonder whether it’s powered by thiotimoline.
The heart of the Predictor is a circuit with a negative time delay—it sends a signal back in time.
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- “What’s Expected Of Us” by Ted Chiang, in Nature, 7 July 2005.