Algorithmic Fanboy
Colin Burrow: Thick Rules and Thin, 1 June 2023
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
by Lorraine Daston.
Princeton, 359 pp., £25, September 2022,978 0 691 15698 9 Show More
by Lorraine Daston.
Princeton, 359 pp., £25, September 2022,
“... gates. Is my passport the right way up? Are my feet exactly on the yellow sticky-backed plastic foot shapes on the floor, and does it matter? Is my nose really that big? Finally there’s the barely concealed relief when my features, contorted by anxiety, defeat the AI facial recognition system, and I have to go and smile at AN ACTUAL PERSON (am I allowed ... ”