time. With new technology, the miraculous quickly becomes mundane, any glitch in its function is felt as bothersome, and finally it becomes ignorable, the miracle forsaken. We forget that life wasn’t always this way, that we couldn’t directly speak to people across long distances, that ceiling lights didn’t make every room bright, or that we didn’t have our information and media automatically filtered by machines. Such is the presence algorithmic feeds now have in our lives; the algorithm is often unconsidered, part of the furniture, noticed only when it doesn’t function in the way it’s
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