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        Date: 2023-10-07 12:10:41+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: two stories of tech

The latest London Review of Books 45.19, for 5 October 2023, has two
stories that I suspect will interest many here.

The first is Jenny Turner, "Naomi Klein"*, on what can happen when a
social media 'learning' algorithm gets a hold on a mistaken association
between very different individuals, and what we can learn from this.

The second is James Vincent, "Prosthetic Brainpower"**, on the history
of the pocket calculator.

The first of these is freely accessible; the second may be, depending on
whether you've been frequenting the LRB and so using up your free
article limit.

Read them tonight!

Yours,
WM

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*https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n19/jenny-turner/short-cuts
**https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n19/james-vincent/instrumental-tricks
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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