World Translation Foundation: Group Research Presentation for MS2

May 11, 2014

The Curiosity of Language is a research presentation given my Ezgi Ucar, Niki Selken and Xiaoqi Liu. We discussed linguistics, logic, semiotics and perception as they related to our respective projects.

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Today is the date Ray Bradbury imagined. August 5, 2026. In There Will Come Soft Rains, an automated house wakes, cooks breakfast, cleans, and reads poetry—long after the people it was built to serve are gone. On August 5th I awoke to a calendar reminder with a link to the story. I don’t remember making the event, but my past self was telling my future self something. So I think it’s worth taking a few minutes to read or listen to this short story. Written in 1950, the story feels eerily close today, as we live alongside AI assistants, smart homes, and increasingly autonomous systems. The machines work perfectly. The humans are gone. For perhaps the most fitting voice to guide us through Bradbury’s future, Leonard Nimoy reads the story in this haunting 1975 recording. 🎧 Listen to the complete recording through the link in my bio. Now that we’ve reached Bradbury’s imagined date, what part of his vision feels most relevant today? Audio: Leonard Nimoy reads Ray Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains, originally released by Caedmon Records in 1975. #RayBradbury #LeonardNimoy #ThereWillComeSoftRains #August52026 #AI SpeculativeFiction ArtificialIntelligence SmartHomes FutureOfTechnology Bookstagram ClassicLiterature DystopianFiction

Today is the date Ray Bradbury imagined. August 5, 2026. In *There Will Come Soft Rains*, an automated house wakes, cooks, cleans and reads poetry, long after the people it was built to serve are gone. Written in 1950, it feels eerily close now that we live alongside AI assistants, smart homes and increasingly autonomous systems. The machines work perfectly. The humans are gone. For perhaps the most logical voice to guide us through Bradbury’s future, Leonard Nimoy reads the story in this 1975 recording. What part of Bradbury’s vision feels most relevant today? Audio: Leonard Nimoy reads Ray Bradbury, originally released by Caedmon Records in 1975. #RayBradbury #LeonardNimoy #ThereWillComeSoftRains #ScienceFiction #ArtificialIntelligence FutureOfTechnology SpeculativeFiction