The Tyranny of Algorithms
Do we want a world where a software program
picks the next pop-music star and legals system
run on opaque pieces of code?
By EVGENY MOROZOV
In "Player Piano," his 1952 dystopian novel, Kurt Vonnegut rebelled against automation. For Vonnegut, the metaphor of the player piano—where the instrument plays itself, without any intervention from humans—stood for all that was wrong with the cold, mechanical and efficiency-maximizing environment around him. MORE HERE
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