New inventions—like the printing press, magnetic compasses, steam engines, calculators and the internet—can create radical shifts in our everyday lives. Many of these new technologies were met with ...

Algorithms are a crucial cog in the mechanics of our digital world, but also a nosy minder of our personal lives and a subtle, even insidious influence on our behaviour. They have also come to ...

Algorithms are not apolitical tools that simply improve efficiency in online transactions or workplace coordination. They are instruments of control and should be regulated like other tools of control ...