[spectre] A Contemporary Delphic Oracle: The Church of Big Data

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A Contemporary Delphic Oracle: The Church of Big Data

New article on Furtherfield by Marloes de Valk.

An essay on waiting for the technological rapture in the church of big
data. Marloes de Valk writes about the paralysing effect of hiding the
human hand in software through anthropomorphising computers and
dehumanising ourselves.

"Strangely enough, the anthropomorphising of computers goes hand in hand
with attributing authority, objectivity, even superiority to computer
output by obfuscating the human hand in its generation. It seems
paradoxical to attribute human qualities to something, while at the same
time considering it to be more objective than humans. How can these two
beliefs exist side by side?"

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/contemporary-delphic-oracle-church-big-data
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