Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine

by Hannah Fry

That was the deal that we made. Free technology in return for your data and the ability to use it to influence and profit from you. The best and worst of capitalism in one simple swap.

in 1983, the psychologist Lisanne Bainbridge wrote a seminal essay on the hidden dangers of relying too heavily on automated systems.48 Build a machine to improve human performance, she explained, and it will lead – ironically – to a reduction in human ability.