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His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.

18 April 2022

“I first heard it played to me over the phone from a copy that hadn’t yet ceased to function. It was a voice unlike any I’d ever heard: not human but made by humans, generated by a piece of computer code dating to the 1980s, singing words of a text from the Bronze Age in a cadence handed down, from one singer to another, over thousands of years.”

A beautifully told story about a piece of software, but it's not really about the software at all.

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