Naice, writing a book? Looking forward to it! On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- Jayadevan +91 98865 51061 Writer & Head of Product FactorDaily <http://factordaily.com/> Follow me on: Twitter <http://twitter.com/therealjpk>/ Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/jayadevanpk>/ LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayadevanpk> "FactorDaily: Signals that help you read the future"
