On 12 October 2017 at 08:41, Jayadevan P K <[email protected]> wrote:
> So we met Bob and interviewed him for this podcast > <https://factordaily.com/outliers-bob-frankston/>. In which, he says: > Algorithm is the new bureaucracy! Heh. Excerpt from something I'm working on. We had such meetings over and over again, and I felt a growing awareness. While e-governance was ostensibly an effort to improve things for citizens by removing authority from corrupt petty officials and handing it to a noble higher official, in fact the authority was now in the hands of computer programmers. All decisions were now based on how good these programmers were at making computers do their bidding, and most of the time these people had a poor appreciation for the consequences of their choices. Since technology is far too vast for any individual to comprehend, programmers were the new priesthood, commissioned to make the technology god happy, but equally also interpreting the will of this god. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda https://hasgeek.com https://internetfreedom.in
