“ The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives. ”
The Google self and the Facebook self, in other words, are pretty different people. There's a big difference between you are what you click and you are what you share.
~ Eli Pariser
A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line – to adjust to the demands of different environments and modalities – is one of human cognition's most astonishing traits. Artificial intelligence has yet to come anywhere close.
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.
