Dennis Duncan

Is writing now changing the world for the worse?

Humanity’s great civilising accomplishment may have slipped the leash. Computer programs and surveillance also involve ‘writing’, potentially making us decreasingly human

A coding programmer writing on a laptop with circuit board and java script on a virtual screen. [Getty Images] 
issue 03 February 2024
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    Walter Stephens

    Johns Hopkins, pp. 576, £30

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