Geek Syndicate

The Life-cycle of Software Objects is a story by Ted Chiang about our relationship with artificial intelligence and what it means to be alive.  It's kind of a peculiar read but well worth it, as we quickly discovered.  Joining Dion and Phil to discuss the tale is our guest host, the delightful Dee - otherwise known as 'Faint Dreams.'Now, don't go skipping straight past.  I know what you're thinking.  You're thinking 'I've never heard of it, never read it, so why listen to the podcast?'  Well, Firstly we're bloody brilliant.  Honest, guv'nor.  Secondly, it's actually a pretty quick read - a novella rather than a book (Around 60 pages.)  Thirdly, The Life-cycle Of Software Objects is available right here for free, and Fourthly it's an absolute corker.  We've all had ideas and questions exploding in our brains long after we finished reading it.So you're not going anywhere, right?Right :-DYou snuggle down and start reading, I'll just sit here and... I dunno, tweet or something.Dum de dum...  de dum...  de dum...R