The ethics of automation

"Because automation alters how we act, how we learn, and what we know, it has an ethical dimension. The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world."

— Nicholas Carr, The Great Forgetting, Atlantic November 2013

An incredibly interesting idea which, alas, the author fails to develop. (Also: do we really "seek advice" on music, TV, and books from "recommendation engines", or is that advice presented to us whether we want it or not?)

Robbie

Why Robbie Can't Dance is now 2000 words long, which means it's halfway there.