I think you’re underestimating corvids.
Corvids evolved beyond the need for physical form.
All that remains are echoes.
Caw… caw… caw…
They Jonathon Livingstoned themselves.
They fuckin peaced like the dolphins in Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Great, now I want to watch it…again. No, really, it’s been a bit. Thanks.
Read the books if you haven’t.
The radio series is the best. Sadly the only way to get it is through somewhat illegitimate means.
Ray Bradbury already did this in “There Will Come Soft Rains”.
Such an incredible story. The nursery scene is my favorite
I highly recommend all of the Martian Chronicles.
While we’re on the subject of Ray Bradbury, most people don’t know he wrote things other than science fiction, but he actually wrote one of my favorite mystery novels (which is slightly autobiographical):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17972482-a-graveyard-for-lunatics
That’s exactly what I was thinking of.
for anyone that wants whis concept as an entire sci-fi story:
this is almost literally the plot of “children of time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky!
excellent trilogy, but the first part can be read as a standalone story!
Seconded. They are great novels, and quite original!
I’ve been meaning to check out their novels. Thanks for the reminder.
Yikes, 20w wait on my library’s network.
I do have a hold, but this is why I haven’t been reading much lately
That’s why I just default to using libgen.
i mean…yeah, it’s a really popular book! for good reasons ;)
Sounds like the scifi short story, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury. It’s about a post-apocalypse, automated house that tries to maintain a daily routine, long after humanity is gone.
The octopodes are named Paul and Salome.
Nice, was looking for a Children reference 😂
Can’t wait for the next book. Apparently it’s being worked on
Funnily enough the other parts of the post remind me of “service model”, the new book by Tschaikowsky
I’m not sure, I liked children of memory less than the others
yeah, lots of people were unhappy about it.
But I still liked it for the most part. Especially the corvids were a fun spcies
What’s this a reference to? It’s ringing a bell that I can’t quite make out
Might have been wrong about it ringing a bell, but that sounds like a very fun read! Think I’ll check it out when I finish my current book
Other species will have a really hard time following us, because our own playbook is no longer available.
Extraction of resources out of the ground is getting harder and harder. We’ve exhausted the easily extracted ore for iron/tin/copper mining, and modern mining of those materials requires much more sophisticated technology. So a Bronze Age and Iron Age can’t really come up from the ground up.
And without easily extracted fossil fuels providing cheap and abundant energy, industrialization would be a pretty difficult hurdle to overcome.
The best hopes of a post-human civilization will come from whatever species learns to recycle and reuse human waste.
And maybe the leftovers of human agriculture (any plant species that efficiently produce lots of biomass that don’t require active planting/tilling/irrigation/fertilization, whatever domesticated animals can survive as feral colonies) will have lasting effects, too.
Landfills are the mining boom of the future.
All really good stuff is going to be in China.
Why would they need to mine ore when we just left all of it laying around?
We have left a lot of the metal we have mined easily accessible
Following intelligences would probably have trouble with energy. Our infrastructure will have failed, and we have used all the easy to get coal and oil
There may be enough left to teach them how to make a spinning generator and synchronous motor. I wonder how long the magnets will stay magnetic in permanent magnet motors
I see Salome and Paul are up to their usual shenanigans under the sea
Came here for this. Thank you, well-read stranger!
Bianca never stood a chance
Someone is overestimating how long a modern appliance will last.
Nah, they won’t be able to do their fucking job but I’d bet every non-essential part will last. That washing machine craves telling it’s dumb fuck user “D80” and then proceed to do nothing with the load.
As long as that control board can get a couple watts it will sing its song to hopefully coax some poor fool into feeding it.
I would wonder how many Terabytes of Data are being sent around in a fully-autonomous world without any human input.
Given that raccoons baboons and octopus have developed sapiens and civilization in just 1000 years I do not think it’s the most egregious part.
Especially impressive for octopus who somehow had to develop fire, modern smelting processors, electronics, and high energy particle physics while living in an aquatic environment.
Sounds like they do better than us at ruling this world.
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We are apes.
Planet of the Apes is an allegory for racism.
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Not the 100meters.
Psh, a sprinter would think that
We are apes.
I demand more information on the Bronze Age raccoons
Reminds me of ‘Service Model’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Combo of Service Model and Children of Ruin (also by Adrian Tchaikovsky).
Reminds me of “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi”
Get some Werner Herzog for it and I’m in.
Feelgood dystopian sci-fi for misanthropes should be a thing if it isn’t already.
Well there is that cat game.
reads like “There will come soft rains”.
I had the same thought, even down to the Nemoy reading
There’s also the radio drama adaptation done in 1950 for Dimension X:
If humanity is extinct what triggered the stupidfridge’s message about orange juice? If humans aren’t consuming it then who is?
It was out of orange juice before the extinction.
Raccoon, duh
If humanity is extinct who is running the power plants?
I don’t have a smart fridge, but my thermostat has to remind me over and over to replace the filter. It’ll just keep reminding me weekly until it’s done
The last human in the house may have nearly finished the juice on their last day in the house. Or the water evaporated away leaving dried out pulp or powder
This is just copy pasted from the Splatoon lore.
