CODERS: The Invisible Architects Who Shape Our Lives

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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Our world is awash in code, and those zeroes and ones aren't as impersonal as you might think. In his new book, "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World," journalist Clive Thompson provides an up-close look at the "invisible architects" of our digital age, revealing the ways they're shaping our society for better and worse.

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0:00.0	It's 2016,
0:02.0	2016, and sociologist Zayup Tufechi needs to confirm a few quotes for an article she is writing about Donald Trump.
0:16.0	So she does what most of us do when we're looking for quotes.
0:19.0	She hops on YouTube, pulls up some Trump rallies and starts watching.
0:23.0	We're going to build the wall.
0:25.0	We have no choice.
0:26.0	We have no choice.
0:28.0	Here's the bottom line.
0:29.0	We've got to keep our country safe.
0:31.0	You look at what's happening. We've got to keep our country safe.
0:36.4	But as she watches to effect she's attention begins to shift from Trump and his
0:41.9	supporters to YouTube itself,
0:43.7	itself.
0:44.7	As soon as one video ends, the site automatically begins to play a new one,
0:48.6	something YouTube's recommendation system has picked out just for her.
0:52.4	And that's how to Fecti finds herself watching. recommendation system has picked out just for her.
0:53.0	And that's how TuFecti finds herself watching videos like this one.
0:57.0	So the Ethnose is an ideal that it would be a state for all people of the white race.
1:01.4	It would be our homeland. It would be our
1:03.0	safe space. And this. Do you choose to believe that 1.2
1:07.8	million people, systematically, in overcrowded lots of 2,000, were complicit in their own deaths as to not resist.
1:17.0	Not even once?
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