Carbonbased Bookworm’s Reviews > Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing > Status Update

“When you think about what stories have to teach us, you probably think about love, conflict, the human condition. But I also think about computation. When Shakespeare’s Juliet asks, “What’s in a name?” she is on to an important question about representation. Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus raises the question of how to face the absurdity of life and also how to detect a never-ending computation.”