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What’s Expected Of Us

by Ted Chiang

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,” in Nature, 7 July 2005.
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