Filterworld

ISBN: 1788708547

Highlights

Algorithmic recommendations are the latest iteration of the Mechanical Turk: a series of human decisions that have been dressed up and automated as technological ones, at an inhuman scale and speed. ^ref-28483

Filterworld is the culture of presets, established patterns that get repeated again and again. The technology limits us to certain modes of consumption; you can’t stray outside of the lines. “Maniac fun,” as Yuri says, is gone—that is to say, a certain degree of originality, unprecedentedness, creativity, and surprise disappears when so much weighs on culture’s ability to spread through digital feeds. ^ref-10006

In other words, anything that can be turned into something like data—a series of numbers—could be manipulated in a formulaic way. That might include text, music, art, or even a game like chess. ^ref-2664

the law is its own kind of algorithm, ^ref-52064

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Author: Kyle Chayka
ASIN: B0C2PDRHZ9
ISBN: 1788708547
Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2PDRHZ9
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

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