In today's world, algorithms truly connect people in beautiful
ways. What
algorithms actually do is solve the bandwidth problem
for human-to-human
communication. We are very inefficient at
communication, so it takes us lots of
time to learn about others.
Face-to-face conversations are time-consuming, but algorithms
allow us to
build an information highway among people. They do
this by interacting with
humans through certain interfaces,
learning, and creating digital
representations of users.
These digital representations can travel and communicate with
other digital
representations at the speed of light. This is why
recommendation algorithms
are amazingly efficient at either
broadcasting our messages or showing us
information we'd miss otherwise.
I believe we will trust our future with algorithms even more.
Today's algorithms
are still far from being perfect.