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Podcast: Who is Satoshi
Episode: 023 True Names by Vernor Vinge
Description: Send us a textTrue Names by Vernor Vinge explores a cyberpunk future where computer coding is abstracted to a point where what matters most is your ability to solve problems and understand the purpose of different tools. Even though computers are a relatively new invention, the abstraction Vernor Vinge describes in his book is already taking place. We can write programs to run on a computer without understanding the underlying machine language. We can use a word processor to type an essay without understanding the program language used to create the word processor.We dis...