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#109 – Brian Kernighan: UNIX, C, AWK, AMPL, and Go Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Computers and Communication

I watch the kids on campus and they're mostly walking around with their heads down fooling with their phones to the point where I have to duck them. People think nothing of having correspondence, regular meetings, video, whatever with friends or family in any other part of the world. And so that's just the communication aspect of it. Do you think that brings us closer together or does it make us... Does it take us away from the closeness of human to human contact? It depends a lot on all kinds of things. There's sociological research that says people are in fact not as close together as they used to be. But I don't know whether that's really true, but

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