Sara Imari Walker

You know, it's like an extensible brain.

So like we're all pretty much attached to our cell phone already.

So when you just, you know, you can imagine in a generation or two, it's more comfortable just to have that inside your body so then you don't lose it.

Yeah.

No, I think now is perfect.

Right.

Right.

But I think the things that they're going to ask about are not the things that we think that they're going to ask about.

Um...

I don't know.

I set myself up for that.

That's so bad.

Well, I think I don't know.

Like, you don't know.

You don't know what the historical moments are right now.

Like we we cite things that we think are historical and I don't think that they are.

And often in.

times it's really interesting because people imagine the future you know being radically different than the present but Ken Liu is a science fiction author he's got this great take that like if you want to actually predict the future look at the things that haven't changed in centuries or haven't changed in decades and those things are likely still to persist and be the same and so like like when he was talking about this he had a picture of like you know some futuristic thing from like the 1930s and there was like a maid in like the black outfit with the white thing and they're like

which of these things is still around?

She's vacuuming, and it's just on the side of the photo, and there's all these robots and things outside.