People rely on computers for so much of our daily lives. But although these machines are pretty miraculous, they also have blindspots and weaknesses—just like their human creators.
“You Are Not Supposed to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the WorldNearly 80 years after engineers programmed the first electronic computers, most of us still regard machines as supremely rational collections of electrical circuits, speaking in binary “1”s and “0”s. It can be easy to forget that software, the digital instructions that tell computers how to do their jobs, springs from the minds of living, breathing people.
And these coders imbue their craft with the same impulses, insights, foibles, and failings that have driven human history for centuries. Ultimately, code works because of the brilliance—or boneheadedness—of the people who write it.
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