I have to listen to guys go on and on about how they're turning their Twitter feeds into blogs, their blogs into books, their books into Twitter feeds.

Stop pretending that your podcast is work, right?

I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Tricia Bobita.

And from WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. This week on the show... One of the Mythbusters, Adam Savage, described me as a nerd whisperer. That's author Mary Roach, who wrote books like stiff, spook, and bonk, all about weird gross science you've always wanted to know more about but we're afraid to ask. That and odds are, even if you haven't been watching Orange and the New Black, you've been hearing a lot about it. But we want to get another new show on your radar. We talk with the TV aficionado about the new AMC show we think you should be watching, halt and catch fire. Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing.

All that plus your nerd confessions, Star Trek Voyager style, on this week's Nerdette.

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In a minute, we'll talk with pop science writer Mary Roach. But first, we want to bring your attention to a show that might not be on your radar.

It's called Halt and Catch Fire. It's from AMC.

It's about computer engineering in Texas in the 1980s.

I'll tell me one thing that will be true about computers 10 years from now.

Well, fully intelligent machines will simulate the actions of neurons more close to

replicates.

Okay, thanks.

You?

Uh, computers will be connected together across one network with a standard protocol.

Like phone lines?

Obviously phone lines.

What's your name?

Cameron. Cameron How? Trisha, this is the show I started watching because you told me to.

And I watched the pilot after I came across a glowing review on Ars Technica.

The idea is that they could possibly create their own computers that work just like IBMs but

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