> And—with all respect to Alex Jones and Amy Goodman—this doesn’t require either a corporate or government conspiracy: it requires nothing more than sincerely good intentions. The Internet presents far more information to us than any of us can realistically process even as it encourages us to subscribe to ever more of that information. *You’ll be behind and uninformed if you don’t use this service, too—but don’t worry, we’ll make sure you only get the information stream from it you really want.*
via [chipotle.tumblr.com](http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/7768594711/the-filter-bubble-and-you)
Mind-blowing article. Highly recommend reading this and pondering the implications.
We can all agree that the Internet brings us information overload. The question is, would it be better to let us each sort out that overload for ourselves, or, as Google and Facebook are doing, let computers decide which content we are “most likely” to want?
And his final thought, that maybe what we want isn’t even what’s best for us, is particularly intriguing.
Perhaps the very act of personal filtration of information on the Internet, good intentioned as it may be, whether by computer or by ourselves, is more dangerous to our long-term learning and mind expansion than anyone knows.
