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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

posted on January 15th, 2010. I'm Steve Merski. And a new Scientific American

magazine is out. Mariette D. Christina is our editor-in-chief. We sat down in her office to talk

about some of the contents of the latest issue. Mariet, it's 2010. I love it. And we have the

January issue out, fascinating articles.

But there's one article, and it's not the cover article on Life in the Multiverse, that really just amazes me.

The one that really just blows my mind is the one about the virtual gold farming.

I knew you were going to say that.

Why don't you just explain to everybody what it is virtual gold farming?

Okay.

Yeah, I love this article.

It's actually, it's a fascinating area, and it's one of the ways I think that we see technology changing human life and yet not changing human life.

Because what it really reminds me of a lot is, is, and this is not funny, but sweatshops

once upon a time.

Oh, that's exactly what came to my mind too.

But let's let's back up, Steve, and we'll tell people what this is about.

So, you know, the ancient alchemist would try to turn dross into gold.

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