The Program audio series

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You had me at Hello World

Set during the biggest revolution in history, the opening episode recounts a much more important story: that of a summer love lost.

Four ways to stop your system from freezing

Imagine you could get sentenced to death through downvoting. Listen to a survivor tell her harrowing story.

White Algorithm’s burden - part I ☆

Your son is a pedophile who never acted on his impulses. What do you do when children in the neighbourhood suddenly start going missing? Part 1 of 3.

White Algorithm’s burden - part II

Your son is a pedophile who never acted on his impulses. What do you do when children in the neighbourhood suddenly start going missing? Part 2 of 3.

White Algorithm’s burden - part III

Your son is a pedophile who never acted on his impulses. What do you do when children in the neighbourhood suddenly start going missing? Part 3 of 3.

White hat, black hat

A story of a war criminal who chooses the losing side and thrives and a war hero who joins the winners but doesn’t find victory.

Parent-child processing

A story examining a relationship between a daughter and a father… After the fact he’s been paid to play the part of her dad for 15 years came to light.

Right align, justify

You don’t need laws against stealing, if you hang all the thieves.

My Turing-complete life ☆

What would you do if you encountered a startup that literally sells you the future?

Motherboard ☆

We thought HAL 9000 would take us to the stars. Instead we employed it as a babysitter.

Jakob’s notebook: Quit without saving

A short story written by the late sci-fi author Jakob Miller discovered with three different endings.

This AI not to be used for fabricating paperclips

Humanity had to endure three great disappointments in the course of history - the first was Copernicus' discovery Earth was not the centre of the Universe; the second was Darwin's conclusion man had no special place in evolution; the third was Lampard's unawarded goal against Germany in 2010 World Cup.