![]() ![]() An autistic programmer – the star of the memorable PowerPoint chapter in “Goon Squad” – seeks a formula for it. A scholar studies him in the name of a better understanding of what authenticity means. One character deliberately launches into public screaming fits to provoke visceral reactions. Never trust a candy house!”Ĭhapters turn on the question of how we can be ourselves when the algorithm wants us to be something else. ![]() One character explains the problem (and the book’s title): “Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise, even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Hansel and Gretel. As we learn in the first chapter, this Wi-Fi-enabled Pandora’s Box is the product of the midlife crisis of a tech mogul named Bix, who’s desperate for “a fresh revelation to shape the remainder of his life.” By cribbing an anthropologist’s research on human behavior, he’s invented something as nefarious as it is seductive. ![]()
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