We spend half our lives staring into glass.
We tap on plastic keys. We drag cursors across glowing screens.
The technology we interact with feels so clean and logical.
But underneath the glass, it's messy and it is profoundly human.
If you know where to look, you can find the fingerprints.
Somewhere deep inside the mouse you hold in your hand, there is a shadow of a
classified Canadian bowling ball from the Cold War,
hidden in the test files you type out, there are ghost lights dancing on the
wing tips of a World War II bomber and a cartoon firefighter from the 1930s who
drove a gravitydeying car.
Every function, framework, and flicker of code has a story. Our machines are
haunted by the people who built them.
Their jokes, their late night desperation,
and their grand impossible dreams.
I'm Daina Bouquin, and this is Lore in the Machine. Stories from Beyond the Screen,
uncovering the hidden histories and surprising origins woven into the fabric
of computing. The first episodes are loading. Find Lore in the Machine on
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen so you don't miss
the first stories.