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10/11/2016 / By resistnews

Machine logic: our lives are ruled by big tech’s ‘decisions by data’

In the early 1970s, Hannah Arendt wrote a devastating critique of the Pentagon’s Vietnam-era penchant for policy by counting. “The problem-solvers did not judge,” she wrote. “They calculated.” Article by Julia Powles Exuding the spirit of gamblers rather than statesmen, the decision-makers played “the percentage game”, counting whatever could be counted and ignoring the rest, […]

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