ALGORITHM
Made in February, a month before the business launch of the Trump Virus, we look at the “Algorithm,” it’s early history and its late incarnation as the fuel source of “the Mammon of mechanized greed” (D.H. Lawrence). Here by some remove we hear from a host of human males whom it touched (if not scarred): Leibnitz, Turning, Freud, Cocteau, Whitehead, Hilbert, Yeats, Harari ("'Algorithm' is arguably the single most important concept in our world"), Bradbury, Darwin, Boyd and Rodney Dangerfield. This podcast is dedicated to Sparrow’s father, Dr. Jack Gorelick, who had recently celebrated his 101st birthday.