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Scenario

How algorithmic recommendations change knowledge discovery

The local bookstore where I used to discover new authors by browsing closed down, and now Amazon just shows me books similar to what I already bought.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The replacement of serendipitous discovery with predictive algorithms narrows the scope of intellectual exploration.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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