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    Pandora's Dreams: After Dinner Conversation, #75
    Pandora's Dreams: After Dinner Conversation, #75
    Pandora's Dreams: After Dinner Conversation, #75
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    Pandora's Dreams: After Dinner Conversation, #75

    By Peter Beaumont

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    Synopsis: A new technology allows the recording, playback, and sale of dreams.

    After Dinner Conversation believes humanity is improved by ethics and morals grounded in philosophical truth. Philosophical truth is discovered through intentional reflection and respectful debate. In order to facilitate that process, we have created a growing series of short stories, audio and video podcast discussions, across genres, as accessible examples of abstract ethical and philosophical ideas intended to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family.

    Podcast discussion of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.

     

    ★★★ If you enjoy this story, subscribe via our website to "After Dinner Conversation Magazine" and get this, and other, similar ethical and philosophical short stories delivered straight to your inbox every month. (Just search "After Dinner Conversation Magazine")★★★

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAfter Dinner Conversation
    Release dateOct 10, 2020
    ISBN9798201010249
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      Pandora's Dreams - Peter Beaumont

      Pandora’s Dreams

      After Dinner Conversation Series

      FIVE YEARS AGO WE OPENED Pandora’s box. Blinded by hubris, we didn’t foresee the problems that would arise.  Only later did we realize our work would have such horrible implications, and as the story of Pandora goes, it's too late once the bad stuff gets out of the box. Now things are a mess and I guess we are to blame. You would be right to judge us harshly, and I won’t hope for your forgiveness, but perhaps you might eventually understand how we got here and where we might end up if something isn’t done.

      I still remember the day well. It was early Spring. A tang of vitality hung in the mild morning air as I climbed out of my car and walked slowly to the lab, weary from the late night and stuck in a loop of thinking I couldn't escape. Why wasn’t it working? Where had we gone wrong? What had I missed?

      We had been working late all week, sustained by a stubborn, almost desperate self-belief. We knew we were close. Close enough to believe the next day would be the breakthrough. Or the next. We just had to keep at it and ignore the poisonous doubt lurking in the long pauses between conversation; the doubt that it actually might not be possible to achieve.

      None of us wanted to walk away from the years of work. From

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