10-12-2016 13:00 via theguardian.com

Why it's dangerous to outsource our critical thinking to computers

It is crucial for a resilient democracy that we better understand how Google and Facebook are changing the way we think, interact and behaveThe lack of transparency around the processes of Google’s search engine has been a preoccupation among scholars since the company began. Long before Google expanded into self-driving cars, smartphones and ubiquitous email, the company was being asked to explain the principles and ideologies that determine how it presents information to us. And now, 10
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