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Civilization is built on code

10 mins | May 4, 2019

Code is often associated with programming, something new and now dominant in modern society. In this excerpt adapted from “The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand-Year History” written by Philip Auerswald, he looks at the integral role code has played in the development of civilisation.