Daniel Chua, co-author of Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth was featured on a recent episode of The Economist’s Babbage podcast. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to listen to the full podcast. (Chua is featured in the last segment of the episode). An excerpt appears below:

“If we don’t have that underlying thing, then we can’t communicate with one another… The point I make in the book is that actually, talking about what we share is much harder than talking about the things that make us different. We need to focus much more on what binds us together than what separates us and makes us very distinct.”