Automate This
How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
On sale August 2012
What started on Wall Street - a takeover at the hands of emotionless algorithms - has now spread to all corners of our lives. Music that sounds as if it could have been written by Bach was, in fact, composed by an algorithm. The best intelligence analysis at the CIA doesn't come from experienced agents, but from an algorithm that knows exactly why people do what they do. The best mind reader in the world isn't a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but a set of five million algorithms that knows what you're thinking and what you'll do in almost any situation. Algorithms are already writing hit songs and selecting job candidates. No realm is safe and no task is out of their reach. How did we get here?
