Language—Chapter 6

Released Thursday, 16th September 2021

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Language—Chapter 6

Thursday, 16th September 2021

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Vernacular languages, like the languages of machines had a shelf-life. William knew he should never forget this. And when he chose to program, he did so without a commitment to the specific symbols or their syntax.

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Palindrome: Traversing Fields for Planting

William‘s father James created machines without logic boards or fuel, relying only on the laws of physics. He had been the center of a movement inspired in part by Bronson Alcott‘s ”Fruitlands”, a failed experiment in farming in the 1800‘s. But now, instead of soil, William‘s fields are abstract and occupy databases in the bank where he works. He writes programs to remove milliseconds of time from trades in commodities, (corn, wheat, oil, gold; things that come from the earth). Ana is his niece, an eight year old girl who William taught to program. She has an important role in his other project—an idea that would soon change the way the world views exchange and potential. A world that is not based on abstraction, but instead respects the unique capacities of human beings when they are allowed to fully thrive.

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