157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)

New Books in Systems and Cybernetics by New Books Network

Oct 2, 202546:23Science & Medicine

When does comedy become more than a laugh? Ben Mangrum of MIT joins RtB to discuss his new book, The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence (Stanford UP, 2025), which in some ways...

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