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“The child you will not have been” is someone for whom initial distresses were not initially shared by a loved one, but rather by an algorithm. The “cry” therefore becomes a “cry language”. The child before language (the infans) cries out, and this cry is transformed by the algorithm into interpretable data. This cry, now a signal, is no longer a vocal call. We will see how humans will be augmented with a “cry language” that reduces subjective function. “Cry language” expresses an illusory desire to make up for human incompletion by saturating it with data. Yet incompletion is part of our condition, as Dany-Robert Dufour shows. From its very origin, the neotenic being receives a response from the other, which structures him or her as a subject. As François Ansermet emphasises, the incidence of technologies influences other aspects, as temporal logics of algorithms within predictive medicine are not naturally connected with those of the subject. Removing the response from the other by inventing a “cry language” is a transgression, as the subject is born through a foundational simultaneity with the other. There is no subject without a response from the other.