This Is Interesting, You Should Watch It of the Day: The Filter Bubble author Eli Pariser gives an illuminating TED talk on the dangers of online personalization algorithms that limit our worldview by attempting to predict our interests.
well fuck
This IS interesting. I actually watched the entire 9 minutes (I don’t usually watch videos longer than 2 or 3 minutes because I have a ridiculously short attention span for the internet). There’s a lot to take in. I knew about the Google thing (I think one of my lecturers told us two or three years ago) and it’s kind of obvious that a lot of other places do it. I didn’t realise Facebook was filtering stuff out for a while. But, yeah, there’s a lot to take in in this video and a lot to think about. It probably says a lot about me, but none of this surprises me. At all. Am I just getting more and more cynical? And does anyone else often actually find it hard to find anything interesting or relevant in Google search?
