“The moment we are unable to recognize whether we feel better because of pleasantries arising from the decisions we made ourselves or because of an artificial environment that an algorithm has created, we are in big trouble. Because at that moment, instead of technology working for us by expanding our world, it has exerted its control to narrow it.

Machine learning on the Web potentially manipulates and constricts our worldview. In the real world, though, it manipulates our bodies and physicality, narrowing the boundaries of our world.”

Reining in the dastardly algorithms that are trying to control our lives
https://thenextweb.com/contributors/2017/07/09/reining-dastardly-algorithms-trying-control-lives/
via Instapaper