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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 5, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is It an Unintentional Bug That Takes Down the Internet?

In the early days of the internet, when it was still the arpet net, things did go wrong with that. What if the best way to get people to look at those news feeds is to have incredibly shocking news that appeals to one set of people and horrifies another set of people? Could that happen? Well, it's still the case that the actual technology that's used to figure out the routing of messages is a little bit hoky and a little bit weird. But there's probably enough diversity in that particular kind of thing couldn't really happen.

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