[Video: TED Talks: Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”.]
This Is Interesting, You Should Watch It of the Day: The Filter Bubble author Eli Pariser gives an illuminating TED talk on the dangers of online personalization algorithms that limit our worldview by attempting to predict our interests.
The full transcript can be found in the right panel of the TED video.
Absolutely fascinating.
“Because I think we really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it’s not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.”
-Eli Pariser
ETA: Part of the reason for filter bubbles is that people want to remain in their comfortable world of their own opinions. But I feel we need to be open-minded and be willing to learn of new perspectives.
I seriously didn’t know google does this. It makes sense with their track record, but still. :/
Liz and I just tried this. CREEPY.
No wonder I’ve felt intellectually stagnant on the internet lately. I’m being showed all the same crap. Goddammit, Google.
