I remember when Internet cafe's first opened. I was curious so went in one, ordered a coffee and paid for a half hour at a terminal. I then sat at a terminal looking at the search page for at least five minutes because I had no idea what I was supposed to do to make it work. Once I figured it out, the output was not great but it was pure and unadulterated. It seemed to be a good thing.
Today, algorithms limit my access on YouTube, and Netflix to only what appears to that algorithm as the kind of media I have already seen. I am unable to get a variety of unique and different that I may like, only same-ol' same-ol'. I read that algorithms do the same with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. so that once someone looks at a site that may be harmful, they get the same offered back over and over from then on. Kids with eating disorders see others starving themselves to death, thus reinforcing the behaviour, kids doing self harm, the same. Republicans only see websites that show Democrats as the looney left, Democrats only websites that see Republicans as fascists and Nazi's. The internet now seems to be a bad thing.
A.I.? Quantum computers? What happens when they (AI and Quantum computing) get together to program the next level of AI? You know that will happen. Businessmen with their computer geniuses will think they can control it, but ... Remember how Franz van Papen thinking himself able to manipulate Hitler, persuaded Hindenburg into appointing Hitler chancellor and him vice chancellor? How did that work out for Papen ... for the World?
