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In this audiobook Mack Sanderson and Emily Schwing reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of lifefor better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be The very word code makes it sound immutable or even inevitable You Are Not Expected to Understand This demonstrates that far from being preordained computer code is the result of very human decisions ones we all live with when we use social media take photos drive our cars and engage in a host of other activitiesEverything from law enforcement to space exploration relies on code written by people who at the time made choices and assumptions that would have longlasting profound implications for society Torie Bosch brings together many of todays leading technology experts to provide new perspectives on the code that shapes our lives Contributors discuss a host of topics such as how university databases were programmed long ago to accept only two genders what the person who programmed the very first popup ad was thinking at the time the first computer worm the Bitcoin white paper and perhaps the most famous seven words in Unix history You are not expected to understand thisThis compelling book tells the human stories behind programming enabling those of us who dont think much about code to recognize its importance and those who work with it every day to better understand the longterm effects of the decisions they makeWith an introduction by Ellen Ullman and contributions by Mahsa Alimardani Elena Botella Meredith Broussard David Cassel Arthur Daemmrich Charles Duan Quinn DuPont Claire L Evans Hany Farid James Grimmelmann Katie Hafner Susan C Herring Syeda Gulshan Ferdous Jana Lowen Liu John MacCormick Brian McCullough Charlton McIlwain Lily Hay Newman Margaret OMara Will Oremus Nick Partridge Benjamin Pope Joy Lisi Rankin Afsaneh Rigot Ellen R Stofan Lee Vinsel Josephine Wolff and Ethan Zuckerman