How is computer code like magic? (with Sam Arbesman)

What is code, and can it be thought of like a magic spell? Are we building a world so complex that we will lose the ability to understand its operations — and has that already happened? What does any of this have to do with SimCity, or knowledge that already exists but no one has put together, or how coding will evolve in the near future? Join Eagleman with scientist Sam Arbesman, who has just written a book asking the question: what is code, really?

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Arbesman S. The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future. PublicAffairs; 2025 Jun 10.

Swanson DR. Undiscovered public knowledge. The Library Quarterly. 1986 Apr 1;56(2):103-18.

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