Synopsis
Dr Hannah Fry reveals how data-gobbling algorithms have taken over our lives and now control almost everything we do, without us even realising.
- Programme: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
- Series: Secrets & Lies - The Hidden Power of Maths
- Episode: How to Bend the Rules
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2019
- Maths
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