Sorry for any cross posting... A Contemporary Delphic Oracle: The Church of Big Data
New article on Furtherfield by Marloes de Valk. An essay on waiting for the technological rapture in the church of big data. Marloes de Valk writes about the paralysing effect of hiding the human hand in software through anthropomorphising computers and dehumanising ourselves. "Strangely enough, the anthropomorphising of computers goes hand in hand with attributing authority, objectivity, even superiority to computer output by obfuscating the human hand in its generation. It seems paradoxical to attribute human qualities to something, while at the same time considering it to be more objective than humans. How can these two beliefs exist side by side?" http://www.furtherfield.org/features/contemporary-delphic-oracle-church-big-data
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