Atlantic article about notebooks (Mathematica, IPython/Jupyter)

Folks here might enjoy this Atlantic article about the history and nature of notebooks for exploring and explaining ideas.

(Though in my opinion it spends a bit more time than necessary on making this some kind of competition, where egoistical genius Wolfram tees off against the bumbling world of open source, etc., and also tries to make some broader point about problems in academia.)

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