Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world on the internet, by

webcast and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the return of the unexplained.

Thank you very much for being there for keeping in touch with me letting me know what you

think about the show, and making suggestions about it, I'm going to do some shout outs

on this edition.

Then we have somebody who I think is a very compelling and a great guest on this edition

of the show, her name is Caffio Neal.

And we're going to be talking about weapons of math destruction.

That's the title of her book, She Is a Numbers Wiz, and a highly accomplished mathematician.

She is very, very concerned and I have to say so am I, about the way that data is gathered

about us.

It is put into big number crunching machines by big organizations everywhere now, and

they make decisions about us that are sometimes completely wrong, harmful and damaging.

But this is the way that the world is going, and the question for all of us is, what are

we going to do about this?

Is this march of technology something that we can alter?

Can we have our say, can we make them change it, or is it just going to keep happening?

I think it's a real issue, a very, very big issue for all of us, and Caffio Neal is

going to be addressing it on this edition of the show from her home in New York City.

Thank you very much to Adam, my webmaster at Creative Hotspot in Liverpool for all his

hard work on the show.

Thanks Adam, couldn't do it without you.

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