Human Readable, Part 01

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Recorded15 Jan 2006

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Here’s the first installment of my reading of my story Human Readable, originally published in 2005’s Future Washington anthology. It’s the tale of a world that’s been upended by hyper-efficient planning algorithms based on ant-colony optimizations, so that Los Angeles has the best traffic in the world. However, when these networks crash, they really crash... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2006/01/15/human-readable-part-01/" class="more-link" title="Read Human Readable, Part 01">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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