Blurring the line between algorithm and judgment

A NYTimes science columnist has eloquently mused on the input-feedback dynamic between cyberspace and its users. "As you sit with your eHarmony spouse watching the movies Netflix prescribes, you might as well be an avatar in Second Life. You have been absorbed into the operating system." link
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