The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Storytelling involves weaving abstractions about fundamental truths regarding the world and the human experience to entertain and educate. When it comes to movies and television, producers and directors often make computer technology look like magic. It doesn't have to be that way. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/DqpL0q5LRlk is an audio podcast of author Grady Booch reading his On Computing column, in which he discusses how movies and television programs often make computer technology look like magic when it's really not.