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“I saw the short stories people were doing on Kindle and really liked the idea of seeing something I'd written on that screen.”

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“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand." "So we're down to five days instead of five years." "Wrong!" Kat says. "Because guess what--we have ten thousand friends. It's called"--she clicks a tab triumphantly and fat yellow letters appear on the screen--"Mechanical Turk. Instead of sending…

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You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a…

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He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

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“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and…

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“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of…

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There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today…

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Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of…

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“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her…

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“The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest--not a friendly Californian forest, either,…

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“How was New York?' Ashley asks politely. I'm not sure how to respond. Something like: Well, the mustachioed master of the secret library is…

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We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my…

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“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with the outer limits of human potential, Kat has stayed pretty close to home. Neel nods knowingly. "The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk." "I don't know about that," Kat says, narrowing her…

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