Technical documentation on the reader technology details how it uses "sandboxing" to restrict potentially risky code when opening notebooks from untrusted sources. Core Tools for Reading Notebooks Accessibility Wolfram Player
The legacy viewer (now mostly superseded by Player) for reading/printing older notebook versions. Historical utility. Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper mathematica notebook reader
A prominent academic critique of this technology is found in by economist Paul Romer . Romer explores the tension between: Technical documentation on the reader technology details how
He acknowledges it as a "perfect vehicle" for research because it allows typeset text and math to be interleaved with runnable code, making results easy to replicate. making results easy to replicate.