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About the Author
Stephen Baker was BusinessWeek’s senior technology writer for a decade, based first in Paris and later New York. He blogs at finaljeopardy.net and is on Twitter @Stevebaker. Roger Lowenstein called his first book, The Numerati, “eye-opening and chilling.” Baker is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Footnotes
1. In Jeopardy, the answers on the board are called “clues,” and the players’ questions—what most viewers perceive as answers—are “responses.”
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