"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"

"[An] intriguingly human collection of articles . . . [from] contributors, including programmers, technologists, historians, journalists and academics."---Andrew Robinson, Nature

"A wonderful book. . . . The writing is clear, and you don’t need to know anything about computers to understand pretty much every line of this book. A must-read!"---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica

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A highly relevant collection of short essays. . . . [You Are Not Expected to Understand This] is intended to develop readers' appreciation for the critical role of software in their lives.

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