Hiro Protagonist [in Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson] must win, one might say, on both Surf and Turf against the wonderfully evil Evangelist Minister R. Bob Riff and his allies, both in the world of violence, swordplay, and aircraft carriers and in the world of ones and zeros.

[D]igitalization seems to be re(con)textualizing all those foundations into ones and zeros so thoroughly that one cannot find 'the programmer'.

You once said that the "ones and zeros" in the world's computers were demons that could trick the human race into losing all its history.

If you are a developer or an architect, you are one for a good reason: Your magic and craft is turning ones and zeros into a solution that makes life and work better.

Neo has been hacking since he was in elementary school. He is more at ease with ones and zeros than his own language.

Ones and zeros

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