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What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing, as the title suggests, poses an intriguing question and one that rarely, if ever, gets asked—what. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash to Diderot’s Encyclopédie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, it explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions TLDR. Cambridge: MIT Press,, pp. We depend onwe believe inalgorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. End Matter. Ed Finn’s. This case study explores commercial algorithmic profiling, targeting, and advertising systems, considering the extent to which such systems can be ethical and What Algorithms Want part of What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing MIT Press books IEEE Xplore. We began carrying devices around in our pockets, peering at them at the dinner table, muttering quietly to Notes What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing MIT Press Scholarship Online Oxford Academic. REVIEWED BY JONATHAN COHN, University of Alberta. algorithms can look svelte and precise; Finn’s main intervention is to reveal all the messiness, errors, and human creativity that these interfaces obscure. The short TLDR. do The MIT Press. By Ed Finn. NotesWHAT ALGORITHMS WANT: IMAGINATION IN THE AGE. OF COMPUTING. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want DOI: ISBN electronicPublication dateThe gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek This book explores the cultural figure of the algorithm as it operates through contemporary digital culture. This case study explores commercial algorithmic profiling, targeting, and advertising systems, considering the extent to which such systems can be ethical and presents some study tasks that can be used as discussion points for those interested in exploring the nuances of targeting in specific contexts Abstract. This chapter contains sections titled: Half Sometime in the late s, our relationship with computers changed.