Nathalie Azoulai says that she can no longer write novels without understanding our new world a little.
A novelist, she is asked to work on the “biopic” of a coder who made his fortune.
It’s so romantic, the destiny of a Bill Gates or a Mark Zuckerberg… No, she wants to understand
“how it works”
.
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During a lunch in June, she was fascinated by Boris, her host's son, who did not touch a drink, all concentrated in front of his computer, headphones on, without a glance towards the guests.
His father explains: Boris coded all night and is still coding.
From there, the woman of letters became obsessed with coding like a gold prospector with his quest for treasure.
The writer, Prix Médicis pour
Titus did not like Bérénice
, says to himself that coding is nothing other than a form of writing -
“administrative, logical, encrypted”
.
The history of a system
The fifty-year-old, normal school graduate, who has no real knowledge of mathematics, throws herself headlong into the adventure.
She…
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