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How Data Happened: Professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones on the History of Data

Tides of History

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The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Bulkeem

The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Bulkeem is an absolute classic. It's a culmination of algorithms and data and compute and also private companies. The idea that the shape of the world is going to be mediated for us by private companies has never been more real than in this book.

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