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IRL: Online Life is Real Life

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The Invention of the Shipwreck

Anthropologist Nick sever imbedded himself in silican valley to learn how these engineers build halgarithms that rule our digital lives as we know. But it turned out it wasn't quite so simple. The algorithm was sort of everywhere and nowhere, not even for the engineers who we might pretend have the inside scoop. Instead, it's so distributed and dependent on all sorts of unreliable things that it's actually hard to figure out whether it's doing what you want.

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