Escape Pod 789: The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity

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Escape Artists Foundation

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity By Tobias S. Buckell On a boat on the way to the Galapagos Islands to visit the world’s oldest tortoise, I got a call that the Central Park Human Reintroduction Center had been bombed. I’d read somewhere that the point of travel was to see the thing yourself. To expose yourself to new points of view and to have new experiences. Before the call I’d spent two point seven seconds regarding the sweep of the Himalayas at the roof of the world and take a backup of my memory of the entire panorama. In Pattaya, I lounged at the beach and watched the aquamarine water lap the sand. Ten years I’d planned this trip. A time to let my thoughts settle before the big push on the Central Park project. My life’s work. A mechanical butterfly perched on my hand with the message. To deliver it, the butterfly had wafted its way over almost two thousand kilometers of ocean boundaries, negotiated with air currents for overflight permissions, and applied for fifty different visas until it tracked my boat down. The Institute had paid a small fortune to recall me from vacation.

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0:00.0	Escape pod, episode 789.
0:12.0	The machine that would re-wild humanity.
0:14.8	Why to buy us buckle?
0:40.3	Hello and welcome to Escape Pod, your weekly science fiction podcast.
0:46.2	I'm your host this week, Tina Connolly, and I'm here to bring you the machine that
0:52.2	would re-wild humanity by Tobias Espacal.
0:57.4	The story first appeared in Escape Pod, the science fiction anthology, which celebrates
1:03.5	the first 15 years of Escape Pod.
1:08.8	Caribbean-born Tobias Espacal is a New York Times best-selling author.
1:15.1	His novels and over 70 stories have been translated into 19 different languages.
1:23.6	Your narrator this week is Dominic Rabran.
1:27.5	Dom is an artist living in Silver Spring, Maryland.
1:30.6	He also runs a show online called Dom's Sketchcast, where he makes art while listening to music,
1:36.8	and interviewing creative people.
1:39.4	Find out more at DomRabran.com.
1:44.6	Your audio producer this week is Adam Perott.
1:48.9	So get ready to query the collective legislative process because it's story time.
2:05.2	The machine that would re-wild humanity by Tobias Espacal, narrated by Dominic Rabran.
2:15.2	On a boat on the way to the Galapagos Islands to visit the world's oldest tortoise, I got
2:21.6	a call that the Central Park Human Reintroduction Center had been bombed.
2:27.6	I'd read somewhere that the point of travel was to see the thing yourself, to expose yourself
2:33.4	to new points of view and to have new experiences.
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