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Chiang, Ted - What's Expected of Us
What's Expected of Us
TED CHIANG
From Hartwell, David - Year's Best SF 11 (2006)
Ted Chiang lives in Bellevue, Washington. He is a technical writer who occasionally writes short SF
that is widely admired, then usually nominated for, or winning awards. He has published five SF stories,
all of which are distinctive and highly accomplished. Stories of Your Life and Others, his collected
fiction to that date, was published in 2002. China Mieville said in The Guardian: "In Chiang's hands, SF
really is the "literature of ideas" it is often held to be, and the genre's traditional "sense of wonder" is
paramount." Chiang says, "To the extent that a work of SF reflects science, it's hard SF. And reflecting
science doesn't necessarily mean consistency with a certain set of facts; more essentially, it means
consistency with a certain strategy for understanding the universe. Science seeks a type of explanation
different from those sought by art or religion, an explanation where objective measurement takes
precedence over subjective experience."
"What's Expected of Us" was published in Nature. It is another of the fictional explorations of
biochemical determinism of human personality and behavior that Chiang, Greg Egan, and Peter Watts,
to name three distinguished examples, have been pursuing in SF.
This is a warning. Please read carefully.
By now you've probably seen a Predictor; millions of them have been sold by the time you're reading
this. For those who haven't seen one, it's a small device, like a remote for opening your car door. Its only
features are a button and a big green LED. The light flashes if you press the button. Specifically, the
light flashes one second before you press the button.
Most people say that when they first try it, it feels like they're playing a strange game, one where the
goal is to press the button after seeing the flash, and it's easy to play. But when you try to break the
rules, you find that you can't. If you try to press the button without having seen a flash, the flash
immediately appears, and no matter how fast you move, you never push the button until a second has
elapsed. If you wait for the flash, intending to keep from pressing the button afterward, the flash never
appears. No matter what you do, the light always precedes the button press. There's no way to fool a
Predictor.
The heart of each Predictor is a circuit with a negative time delay—it sends a signal back in time. The
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