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Posted inEditor's Pick

Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 16, 2021October 19, 2022

“Algorithms are integral to how we find and consume art. But old-fashioned browsing still has its benefits.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Heat Listed

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 27, 2021October 19, 2022

“He could be the shooter, he might get shot. They didn’t know. But the data said he was at risk either way.”

Posted inQuotes

No Escape from Online Memories

by Carolyn Wells April 12, 2021October 14, 2022

The algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps don’t know when your life changes course — and can keep up a stream of painful memories.

Posted inNonfiction

Graded by an Algorithm

by Carolyn Wells February 24, 2021October 14, 2022

“Algorithms…don’t go on mutant rampages, they only sometimes reveal and amplify the cruddy human biases that underpin them.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2020October 19, 2022

” No single machine should be able to control so many people.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 2, 2020October 19, 2022

“Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.”

Unisphere
Posted ineducation, Highlight, Quotes, Science & Nature, Technology

The Future of Decisions

by Catherine Cusick August 14, 2018October 19, 2022

If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Design, Essays & Criticism, Quotes

Do These Pants Make Me Look Like Everyone Else? Be Honest, Alexa.

by michelleweber April 18, 2018October 19, 2022

What happens to taste when machines become the tastemakers? Kyle Chayka meditates on style, algorithms, and our generic yet lullingly unobjectionable future.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Style is an Algorithm

by michelleweber April 17, 2018October 19, 2022

No one is original anymore, not even you.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Shallowness of Google Translate

by benhuberman January 31, 2018October 19, 2022

Despite advances in machine learning and ever-bigger datasets, rumors of human translators’ imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.

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