Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves

In this week's podcast, I read aloud my latest Locus Magazine column, "Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves":

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/...

which concerns itself with the ways that we're recklessly formalizing critical elements of human identity such as "names" and "families" for the convenience of corporations and their IT systems and business-models.

"When a progra...