People woke up to the fact that our digital platforms are being coded by people who don’t have our best interests at heart. The digital media environment uses what it knows about each of our pasts to direct each one of our futures. The digital media environment is a space that is configuring itself in real time based on how the algorithms think we will react. But though these may have amplified and accelerated the effect of the digital environment, that environment would have generated standing waves of cultural angst in primary colors no matter what. The digital media environment functions like a big blockchain, recording and storing everything we say or do for later retrieval.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2019 06:00 UTC