FLIGHT 008 | Oblivion is a Crease Left by Memory: Seat 17F

DUST

Gunpowder & Sky

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Technology and art may seem at odds, but in this stunningly beautiful portrait, Nebula-award winning author Chen Qiufan shows us a future made vivid through shared artistic experience. Oblivion is a Crease Left by Memory is written by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu, and performed by Greg Watanabe.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Kai.
0:08.5	You have tuned into a special season of dust.
0:12.1	You have tuned into the future.
0:16.0	The future is a web and each strand has the power to catch you.
0:21.8	Today, find yourself entangled in.
0:25.2	Oblivion is a crease left by memory, written by Chen Chilfun.
0:30.2	Translated by Ken Liu and brought to life by Greg Watanabi.
0:35.3	This episode, made in partnership with X-Prize,
0:38.6	explores the future intersection between art and technology.
0:54.7	At 4.58am on June 28, 2020,
0:59.7	the passengers onboard A&A Flight 008,
1:03.4	on route from Tokyo to San Francisco,
1:06.2	are cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet,
1:09.6	approximately 1,500 nautical miles off the west coast of the United States.
1:15.4	A small bump, otherwise noted as a barely perceptible bout of turbulence,
1:20.4	passes Flight 008 through a temporary wrinkle in the local region of spacetime.
1:27.0	What these passengers will soon find out, as they descend into SFO,
1:31.9	is that the wrinkle has transported them 20 years into the future,
1:36.2	and the year is now 2040.
1:39.8	This is the story of the passenger in seat 17F.
1:51.1	The bumps level off once were through the turbulence.
1:54.5	I relax my fists and prepare for landing.
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