📗 Libro en inglés FILTERWORLD

One of the BBC s most anticipated books for 2024 The story told here is instrumental to your own Jared Lanier Timely erudite important Ayad Akhtar What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm What does it mean when shareability supersedes innovation How can we make a choice when the options have been so carefully arranged for us From coffee shops to city grids to TikTok feeds and Netflix homepages the world over algorithmic recommendations prescribe our experiences This network of mathematically determined choices the Filterworld has taken over almost unnoticed as we ve grown accustomed to an insipid new normal But to have our tastes behaviours and emotions governed by computers calls the very notion of free will into question Internationally recognized journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka journeys through this ever tightening web woven by algorithms He explores how online and offline spaces alike have been engineered for seamless consumption How the lowest common denominator is promoted at the expense of the complex diverse or challenging How users of technology contend with data driven equations that promise to anticipate their desires but often get them wrong How the FIlterworld is