Science and the Spirit Child — Hannu Rajaniemi at The Interval at Long Now
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Channel: The Long Now Foundation · 2018 · Science & Technology
Hannu Rajaniemi tells the strange true story of a Victorian-era British prime minister and the child he believed was engineered in the afterlife. Watch the full video of this talk here: https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/02018/jul/10/The-Spirit-Singularity-Science-Afterlife-Summerland-Rajaniemi In this talk "Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century" science fiction author Hannu Rajaniemi discusses the real life late Victorian attempts to map the afterlife which inspired Summerland, his latest novel. This video from Long Now's ongoing lecture series Conversations at The Interval was produced with support from Stripe, who build the economic infrastructure of the internet http://Stripe.com The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit located in San Francisco dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Find out more at http://longnow.org
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