Zachary’s Notes & Highlights for Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
In some ways, this shift to algorithms is convenient. It’s tiring to interrogate your preferences all the time: researching which new cultural products are available to you; reading magazines or requesting book suggestions from friends; and making decisions about what and where to eat. It’s a luxury form of labor that eighteenth-century French philosophers may have had plenty of time for, but in the much faster-paced contemporary world, most of us cannot afford.