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2000-2015: software eating the world: our lives & societal infrastructure move to a digital, connected, information-based substrate, enabling increased automation 2015-: algorithms eating the world: our lives get mediated by automation, with poorly understood emergent properties
Algorithms, and in general "AI", will increasingly serve as our sole interface to a world that is increasingly made of information. As a result, the algorithmic medium, which at scale no one really understands, is becoming the new nexus of power and conflict
Exhibit A : social media silos & digital cults Exhibit B : attention algorithms hijacking deep thought & critical thinking skills Exhibit C : rise of the Temple of make believe , video games etc
Role of social sciences in understanding these phenomena is critical. Some call it an era of ‘deep mediatization’. Foundational work eghttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2017/10/CouldryHepp …
I don't see a fundamental reason why we shouldn't be able to analyze and understand the properties better. Are there any definitive roadblocks?
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