Are computer viruses alive?

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2011

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Computer viruses can permanently damage the files of unprepared computer users, but does their behavior mean that they are living entities? Join Robert and Julie as they explore the similarities between organic life and the behavior of computer viruses.

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0:00.0	It's Tania Sam, host of the Money Moose podcast powered by Greenwood,
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0:27.5	or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the story of a man who's fascinated me.
0:33.7	His name was Sweet Daddy Grace and that's a name you don't forget. He was a visionary who built a
0:40.3	fortune as a black man during Jim Crow, during the Depression. But today, not many people know about him.
0:48.0	He raised sort of wiped out and I wonder if this was done intentionally.
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1:35.5	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.
1:43.9	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.
1:47.1	And I'm Julie Douglas.
1:48.7	Hey, Julie. Have you ever had a computer virus?
1:50.9	And have you ever wanted to keep it and raise it to that?
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