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The Tower of Babel

Codes that Changed the World by BBC

Apr 10, 201513:54Science & Medicine

Today's digital world is a reverse tower of Babel. It takes all sorts of different languages to build it. It is this phenomenon that Aleks Krotoski explores in this final edition.

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