Written in 2006, years before the recent glut of fairytale programming on television and film; 384 words, 5 analogies, and one metaphor, alas, Zen, the smart phone version, has gone the way of the Dodo.

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It’s not hard to conjure them up: dwarves, trolls, elves, swan princesses, copper, silver and golden forests, white stags — all primordial software, some of the most successful programming ever written — fairy tales.

We carry these algorithms in our collective unconscious. And even though the sacred runes faithfully inscribed … Read the rest