The Formula Quotes

“the theory behind the panopticon was that prisoners would behave as if they were being watched at all times — with the mere presence of the watchtower being as effective as iron bars in regulating behaviour and ensuring that everyone acted the same way. (A similar idea is behind today’s open-plan offices.)”
― Luke Dormehl, The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More

“It is the gulf between the idea of the autonomous individual, and the algorithmic tendency to view the individual as one categorisable node in an aggregate mass that can result in The Formula’s equivalent of a crisis of self.”
― Luke Dormehl, The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More

“the theory behind the panopticon was that prisoners would behave as if they were being watched at all times”
― Luke Dormehl, The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More