AI is Throwing a Roadside Picnic
- Note: if you’ve been wishing to read Roadside Picnic at some point, this article may contain spoilers.
- I recently finished a philosophical science-fiction novel by Soviet authors Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky called “Roadside Picnic”.
- Aliens visit certain places on Earth; those places (“the zones”) become riddled with alien artifacts that are incomprehensible to humans, and an entire subculture and black market develop around discovering and re-selling those artifacts.
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- Note: if you’ve been wishing to read Roadside Picnic at some point, this article may contain spoilers.
- I recently finished a philosophical science-fiction novel by Soviet authors Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky called “Roadside Picnic”.
- Aliens visit certain places on Earth; those places (“the zones”) become riddled with alien artifacts that are incomprehensible to humans, and an entire subculture and black market develop around discovering and re-selling those artifacts.
Sources: Substack