Emotional Nanocrafts in the Space Between Us

In I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me, John Ortberg uses an interesting analogy for an aspect of our relationships. In 2015, Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner announced the Starshot Initiative: to see if it would be possible to send one-gram “nanocraft” from earth to Alpha Centauri at 20% of the speed of light. Why? According to Hawking: “Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn to know…. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important to us to know if we are alone in the dark."

Are we alone in the…