How did we end up here?\xa0The humans before me had the same physiological traits as I did, yet still we had no means of communicating with one another.\xa0I couldn\u2019t understand what they were saying. Words and phrases spilled from their mouths, a torrent of sounds bleeding into one another, syllables pouring out in a drum roll, unending and uninterrupted. | \xa9 2023 by Regina Kanyu Wang. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices