Tag: humanity in the age of algorithms

There is no longer any need for orders, censorship, or coercion—at least not on a mass scale. A suggestion suffices: a small impulse, a supersonic flick in the code that hints at what is better to click. The algorithm has no intention of evil; its power does not rest on violence but on care. This is the new language of servitude: gentle, predictive, polite. A civilization that for centuries built conscience upon decision has now shifted its weight into the cloud of data. Responsibility has been replaced by statistics, and guilt by the conversion rate. Where once there was conscience,…