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THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 5

By Cecily Ravenscar · 4 parts · 14 h 19 min · English

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Emeryville, California, and King's Cross, London, 1974 to 2024. Ed Catmull spends twenty years making a computer draw a curved surface and then discovers that the hard problem was never the rendering: it was getting a room of talented people to say out loud that the work was not good. What he builds is a meeting with two strange rules — the people in it have no authority over the film, and the director need not take a single note. Thirty years later, beside a London railway station, Demis Hassabis builds a different room for the same purpose, where the thing that tells you that you are wrong is not a colleague but a benchmark nobody controls. Both rooms work. Neither survives contact with ownership unchanged. Covers Ed Catmull, Demis Hassabis, Pixar, and DeepMind.

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  1. Part 01

    3:23:08

  2. Part 02

    3:32:02

  3. Part 03

    3:40:50

  4. Part 04

    3:43:24

Books in this series

  1. THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 1

    4 parts · 12 h 16 min

  2. THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 50 min

  3. THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 3

    4 parts · 16 h 28 min

  4. THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 58 min

  5. THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 19 min

  6. THE ROOM THEY WERE GIVEN Book 6

    4 parts · 14 h 52 min