2015: the year we get creeped out by algorithms

Personally I've been creeped out by all this since reading the Filter Bubble, but apparently I'll be feeling less lonely about it next year. Great image here: "Think of a world in which your phone constantly checked in with the central phone company to decide which of your relatives it should allow you to call, and to jumble their sentences around in any order it deemed “better” ... and served you ads in the middle?... We no longer truly own our intermediaries; instead they are guided by an invisible, algorithmic layer that neither answers to nor is accountable to us... Algorithms are increasingly being deployed to make decisions where there is no right answer, only a judgment call... Deep philosophical questions that humans have debated for millennia — and have erected complex (and far from perfect) gatekeeping, credentialing, and judging apparatus to grapple with — are now being asked to computers, and their answers, spat out through proprietary and opaque systems, are being used to shape our lives... Machines have out-muscled us for centuries and out-computed us for decades. Now they are going to judge for us, instead of us, and out-judge us." - The year we get creeped out by algorithms » Nieman Journalism Lab