- Each language has their unique encoding of their language represented in pulses of light.
- Written text remains the same
- The light is beamed from the human head in 360 degrees when ever they communicate, visible for up to 1KM
- Instumental music still works, and people can still hear things, just not talk.
- People currenly alive will instantly know how to communicate with light in equivalent proficiency to their speech proficiency before the scenario happening, but everyone born from now on will have to learn from the adults.
Remember: Light cannot penetrate walls
Wait wtf is this image 🤣
It’s Old Gregg
Its communication via Old Greg
Epileptics are not going to be thrilled, neither are the blind. Buy stock in aspirin because migraines and headaches are going to increase. Driving at night will become a silent affair. No more covert night ops.
A lot of epileptics are gonna have a very bad time
Morse code: am I a joke to you?
I mean, in this scenario, human are just morse code machines with a glowing lightbulb-like head.
Just the men. Women already have headlights
Stock market rave! ER rave! Funeral rave! Raves everywhere!
Well, all fully blind people lose their ability to effectively communicate, at the very least. At least until some form of sound based “sign” language is developed.
- The light is beamed from the human head in 360 degrees when ever they communicate, visible for up to 1KM
This sounds extremely impractical. It’s like everyone can only yell at the top of their lungs. At least we can choose to focus on the person we’re interested in and ignore background “noise”. But someone trying to get our attention would be difficult. Now we can just call someone’s name from behind them. Something equivalent would be impossible.
I’m re-listening to 3 Body for the 2nd time :) I’ve thought a little of the consequences of using light to communicate instead of sound. Tri-Solarans can probably easily communicate very long distances naturally. I also thought maybe this style of communication makes them more apt to computer technology in general as the light modulation is what a lot of computing is. I also wondered if “conversing” with a computer is more natural for them and much simpler for a computer to interpret compared to speech.
CARAMELLDANSEN
I’m going to place an angled mirror from the bathroom to the kitchen so I can blink to my wife to bring toilet paper. Or a towel.
Remember: Light cannot penetrate walls
Glass: “Am I a joke to you?”
Lol, roadrages is gonna be fun when people start instictively
sayingcommunicating via light “you motherfucker” on their drive to work. The entire road willhearsee it.
My wife will try to pulse light at me while I’m asleep or in another room.
Nearly all existing media (radio, songs, TV, movies, YouTube videos, …) will eventually lose its appeal, as (for new born people at least) it will effectively be in a foreign language, that uses a completely separate mode of communication. You can’t share Back to the Future with anyone new anymore.
But all of Star Wars gets a remaster with a CGI light-speech dub.
We can make a human computer to predict the motion of the suns in the sky. But we might have trouble keeping secrets…
不要回答。不要回答。不要回答。
DO NOT ANSWER. DO NOT ANSWER. DO NOT ANSWER.
I am a pacifist from this world. You’re lucky I got this mesaage first.
If you respond, they will come, and your world will be conquered.
DO NOT ANSWER!
不要回答！
(Its actually why I made this question. Both the Netflix and Tencent versions were awesome in their own ways)
What is this from?
Three Body Problem, part of a Trilogy of Books called Rememberance of Earth’s Past. Originally in Chinese, but translated to English, so the phrasing can seem a little “weird” since its the difference in language (according to reddit).
I haven’t read it yet (because I have attention span issues), but I watched a Netflix Adaptation 3 Body Problem which would eventually cover the entire book series, with the Season One already out.
There’s also a Tencent version of it called Three Body (三体) (in Mandarin) that coveres the entire first book, which I also watched and it feels slightly overdramatised so I kinda skipped a lot of it.
This is the exact scene from Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycs6JRx-pxk (minor Episode 1 spoilers)
Its an interesting world, and I’ll probably have to read it since the text is just too different from any adaptations, and they’re estimating season 2 and 3 of it being released in 2028 (I’m not gonna wait that long, I’m just gonna read it first).
I recommend the series, I’m currently on the third, listening to the audiobook (I don’t think there’s any downside to listening over reading if the text is translated)
I watched the Netflix show too beforehand, but I don’t remember it that well. I think it was pretty faithful to the book, although it definitely left some things out.
Sign language becomes more prevalent
I was going to say something like this (that it could combine in interesting ways) though if we assume that it was part of society’s past it’s more likely it was never created due to lack of need (being deaf would no longer be a hindrance to communication).
Though being blind would be even worse and I’m not sure what (simple) system* could be created to overcome that. It would be like being deaf now but without sign-language existing, at least when it comes to receiving communication.
* I guess maybe some implant like a modified cochlear implant, but that’s not exactly simple
