Behind the Code Curtain

On the Media | Jun 12, 2015

The products made by Apple, Google, and Facebook in large part mediate our experience of the world, and yet most of us haven’t a clue about how they actually work. Brooke speaks with Paul Ford, the writer and programmer behind this week's 72-page issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, "What is Code?," about the integral role code plays in our lives.  

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