Too smart for our own good

Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 11 p.m.

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Carl Miller, the author of The Death of the Gods, which deals with how power works and who holds it in the digital age, sheds light on how algorithms, originally devised as simple problem-solving devices, have become so complicated that no one, not even their creators, can control them; Kristen Roupenian points out the problem with an \\u201cunfailingly enthusiastic\\u201d compendium of twentieth-century female intellectuals (including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion): who is left out and why?; eighty-odd years ago, Zora Neale Hurston, now best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, interviewed Kossola O-Lo-Loo-Ay, the last known survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade. As her book is finally published, Colin Grant joins us to tell us more 


Books 

The Death of the Gods: The new global power grab by Carl Miller 

Sharp: The women who made an art of having an opinion by Michelle Dean 

Barracoon: The story of the last \\u201cBlack Cargo\\u201d by Zora Neale



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