The New York Times Magazine
11/4/2017
New Technology Is Built on a ‘Stack.’
Is That the Best Way to Understand Everything Else, Too? People from nutrition geeks to philosophers are using a metaphor from software to describe the world. Text by John Herrman.
Art Direction by Chloe Scheffe.
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