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Barack Obama: “We have to assume that if a system is perfect, then it's static.”

On the recordAugust 23, 2016
We have to assume that if a system is perfect, then it's static.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Joi Ito of MIT and Scott Dadich of WIRED

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