Peter Gabriel’s pet project: teaching monkeys to Skype
by Emine Saner from on (#WYHQ)
The singer is planning an experiment at Monkey World in Dorset to see if chimps can use videoconferencing to chat to each other - or even to us
What if the internet that humans currently use could be extended to other species?
This is the kind of idea that the musician Peter Gabriel has long been interested in. As part of the Interspecies Internet project, which he has been working on with pioneers such as Vint Cerf, one of the architects of the internet, and academics such as Neil Gershenfeld, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gabriel is planning to run an experiment at Monkey World, the Dorset-based chimp rescue centre.
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