We are all now immersed, if not in code itself, then in the effects of code on everything around us.

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Context is about how we relate to everything around us.

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Sneha Malde image The universe began with a bang and energy came together to form equal quantities of matter and antimatter, but as the universe cooled and expanded, its composition changed and antimatter disappeared, leaving matter to form everything around us.

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Mr. JOEY WIEDNER (Atlanta Resident): So, you know, we had everything around us within like a four- or five-block radius: the grocery store, the dry cleaners, the deli--everything that we needed, you know, to where we didn't have to go far even in that vast city of New York, so we really were trying to find somewhere in Atlanta that would give us some of that same feel.

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When astronomers look out into the sky, they see that everything around is moving away from us.

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Which brings us to one of my favorite leadership mantras for these challenging times: when everything around you diverts into complexity, get back to basics.

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If you think people around the world don't love us today, how will it be when America has everything and no one else has anything from their point of view?

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But despite being vanished off the face of the Earth, there were times when the walls around us would dissolve and I could see, with perfect blue-sky clarity, that everything I needed to know about the world was immediately available to me.

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