Culture Doom Loop

In the very early days of the Internet, my friend, mentor and soothsayer, Richard Dalton used to say that algorithms that showed you only news you were interested in would eliminate serendipity. He wanted a “random” factor that would show you something new every day, unlike your usual fare.

Now Ted Gioia has made what amounts to a similar suggestion in his essay How to Know If You're Living in a [cultural] Doom Loop.  Search for the word “algorithm” to be taken to the relevant part of the essay.