Seattle based science writer and poet Brian Christian reads from his new book, The Most Human Human: What Talking to Computers Teaches Us about What it Means to be Alive. The book chronicles Christian's experience competing for the 2009 'Most Human Human Award' during the annual Turing Test (a test that was originally created to prove that computers can 'think') and asks fundamental questions about the nature of language and consciousness. Christian proves a winning guide; his contained wit affably connecting technobabble to home-office philosophy.

7:00pm, March 22, Elliot Bay Books, 1521 Tenth Ave