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In April 2010, fifty years to the month after the first experiment in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), scholars from a range of disciplines—including astronomy, mathematics, anthropology, history, and cognitive science—gathered at NASA's biennial Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) for a series of sessions on the search for intelligent life. This book highlights the most recent developments in SETI discussed at that conference, emphasizing the ways that SETI has grown since its inception. The volume covers three broad themes: First, leading researchers examine the latest developments in observational SETI programs, as well as innovative proposals for new search strategies and novel approaches to signal processing. Second, both proponents and opponents of "Active SETI" debate whether humankind should be transmitting intentional signals to other possible civilizations, rather than only listening. Third, constructive proposals for interstellar messages are juxtaposed with critiques that ask whether any meaningful exchange is possible with an independently evolved civilization, given the constraints of contact at interstellar distances, where a round-trip exchange could take centuries or millennia.
As we reflect on a half-century of SETI research, we are reminded of the expansion of search programs made possible by technological and conceptual advances. In this spirit of ongoing exploration, the contributors to this book advocate a diverse range of approaches to make SETI increasingly more powerful and effective, as we embark on the next half-century of searching for intelligence beyond Earth.
As we reflect on a half-century of SETI research, we are reminded of the expansion of search programs made possible by technological and conceptual advances. In this spirit of ongoing exploration, the contributors to this book advocate a diverse range of approaches to make SETI increasingly more powerful and effective, as we embark on the next half-century of searching for intelligence beyond Earth.
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This book is devoted to what does not exist yet. Clearly, when the book is devoted to the Searching for ETI (SETI), because searches are conducted. Clearly, when the book is devoted to the Messaging to ETI (METI), because the messaging is now being conducted. But the Communication with ETI (CETI) does not exist yet, so I do not see much point in writing about something that now does not exist. Communication (CETI) suggests getting in touch, while the search (SETI) and messaging (METI) is only two interrelated process of trying to establish Contact.
Thus, the main drawback of this book lies in the fact that the book's title (Communication with ETI) does not match the content of the book! The fact that more than half the book is devoted to the classic problems of SETI (Searching for ETI). But about the search has written many, many books! And the rest of the book tells about what dangers lurk foolish inhabitants of the Earth, if they try to enter into "Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence"!
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Douglas A. Vakoch is Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
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