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Document Information
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Book excerpt / manuscript page (house oversight committee evidence)
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Summary
This document appears to be page 288 of a book or manuscript titled 'Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?' It discusses the concept of 'bandwidth' in human communication, using an analogy of attending the Edinburgh Festival in person versus experiencing it through a mobile phone call. The text analyzes the loss of sensory data (smell, heat, audio fidelity) during digital transmission. The document bears the stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015978', indicating it is part of an evidentiary production, likely related to investigations into scientific funding or associations (possibly involving Jeffrey Epstein's ties to academia/scientists, though no specific names appear on this page).
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Unknown Author | Author/Narrator |
Refers to themselves as 'I', discussing communication theory and attending the Edinburgh Festival.
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| Unnamed Friend | Hypothetical listener |
The person the author calls on the phone in the analogy.
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Organizations (2)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Edinburgh Festival |
Mentioned as the location where the narrator is watching a comedian.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' in the footer.
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Timeline (1 events)
Unknown
Attendance at a comedy show (hypothetical/anecdotal)
Edinburgh Festival
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Comedian
Audience
Locations (1)
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Described as 'the biggest arts festival in the world'.
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Relationships (1)
Author mentions phoning 'a friend who is also a fan'.
Key Quotes (3)
"Most scientists believe communication between humans is classical: words spoken in proximity have no more power than had we carefully written out what we wanted to say."Source
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"Loss of bandwidth is something we can study mathematically and the reduction is enormous."Source
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"My live experience is digitized, compressed and transmitted over the mobile network to my friend."Source
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Full Extracted Text
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288 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
Most scientists believe communication between humans is classical:
words spoken in proximity have no more power than had we carefully
written out what we wanted to say. Body language and tone of voice are
simply useful tools to aid the transmission of this information. I'm going
to explore the ways in which human face-to-face communication might
exceed this traditional classical model. Let us look first at the bandwidth
of communication between people.
words spoken in proximity have no more power than had we carefully
written out what we wanted to say. Body language and tone of voice are
simply useful tools to aid the transmission of this information. I'm going
to explore the ways in which human face-to-face communication might
exceed this traditional classical model. Let us look first at the bandwidth
of communication between people.
Bandwidth
Let me give you a mental picture for what I mean by bandwidth. Imagine
I am sitting in a darkened theatre enjoying one of my favorite comedians
at the Edinburgh Festival – the biggest arts festival in the world. I phone
a friend who is also a fan and let them listen in. Perhaps I even use the
camera and surreptitiously point the phone at the comedian. My live
experience is digitized, compressed and transmitted over the mobile
network to my friend. He gets the same experience but at much-reduced
bandwidth.
Let me give you a mental picture for what I mean by bandwidth. Imagine
I am sitting in a darkened theatre enjoying one of my favorite comedians
at the Edinburgh Festival – the biggest arts festival in the world. I phone
a friend who is also a fan and let them listen in. Perhaps I even use the
camera and surreptitiously point the phone at the comedian. My live
experience is digitized, compressed and transmitted over the mobile
network to my friend. He gets the same experience but at much-reduced
bandwidth.
My friend has a similar but qualitatively different experience to
mine. He cannot hear the degrees of loud and soft I hear, nor the full
range of high and low frequencies forming the timbre of the comedian's
voice; no sense of the smell of old armchairs or the heat of the audience
around me. He is spared the strange stickiness my shoes meet on the
floor of the auditorium and the occasional slosh of beer that hits me
from a slightly inebriated neighbor. For the person at the other end of the
phone, their view is of a tiny two-dimensional screen about 4 by 3 inches
square. Of course, they can enlarge the picture, but then the pixilation
dominates and it looks like an impressionist picture viewed close up. He
has nothing like the same intensity of experience. Loss of bandwidth is
something we can study mathematically and the reduction is enormous.
mine. He cannot hear the degrees of loud and soft I hear, nor the full
range of high and low frequencies forming the timbre of the comedian's
voice; no sense of the smell of old armchairs or the heat of the audience
around me. He is spared the strange stickiness my shoes meet on the
floor of the auditorium and the occasional slosh of beer that hits me
from a slightly inebriated neighbor. For the person at the other end of the
phone, their view is of a tiny two-dimensional screen about 4 by 3 inches
square. Of course, they can enlarge the picture, but then the pixilation
dominates and it looks like an impressionist picture viewed close up. He
has nothing like the same intensity of experience. Loss of bandwidth is
something we can study mathematically and the reduction is enormous.
Video and Audio
The image of the comedy show is digitized by the camera and
microphone; the video at 384,000 bits per second and the audio at 64,000
bps. Mathematical compression will be applied and the video will shrink
to 30,000 while the audio drops down to 4,700. After compression, the
whole experience amounts to around 40,000 bits per second. To put it in
some perspective, a DVD would be 11.5 million bits per second, nearly
300 times the bandwidth.
The image of the comedy show is digitized by the camera and
microphone; the video at 384,000 bits per second and the audio at 64,000
bps. Mathematical compression will be applied and the video will shrink
to 30,000 while the audio drops down to 4,700. After compression, the
whole experience amounts to around 40,000 bits per second. To put it in
some perspective, a DVD would be 11.5 million bits per second, nearly
300 times the bandwidth.
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