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woensdag 19 september 2012

On Automation


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?



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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