Wall Street Journal
The Tyranny of Algorithms
Evgeny Morozov
Automate This
By ChristopherSteiner
(Portfolio Penguin, 248 pages, $25.95)
September 19, 2012 -- In "Player Piano," his 1952 dystopian
novel, Kurt ... cold, mechanical
and efficiency-maximizing environment around him.
Vonnegut would probably be terrified by ChristopherSteiner's
provocative "Automate This," a book about our growing reliance
on algorithms. By encoding