Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

by Hannah Fry

What was truly extraordinary about this study was not the skill of the testers. It was their identity. These plucky lifesavers were not oncologists. They were not pathologists. They were not nurses. They were not even medical students. They were pigeons.

As a result, the work of a physician would involve a lot of chanting and singing and superstition, which sounds like a lot of fun, but probably not for the person who was relying on it all to stop them from dying.