I really enjoyed this insightful and far out conversation on the Hermitix podcast with the media theory scholar Bogna Konior, I’ll definitely be picking up her book. She pulls from sci-fi, theology, the study of non-human intelligence, and the roles of deception to weave together a thought experiment where the most intelligent thing to do as a human may be to stop communicating in open internet spaces (and yes I see the irony of posting this in an open internet space). I was especially compelled by her ideas about monks and prayer and if that type of reverent silence is possible within networked digital spaces.