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The Internet Gives Us What We Want

The internet is very useful when it comes to keeping us connected. We can get basically obtain any information we need with just a raise of a finger or even the sound of your voice through Siri, or converse with people miles away. This is a total upgrade from having to go to libraries and read through books to perhaps find the single piece of information we want. The old ways were so time consuming. The algorithms used to display things that you might be interested, almost like a close friend that knows you very well. This theory is brought up in Clive Thompson's  High-Bandwidth Buddies.   With all the good that the internet does a question has came up on wether want we want from the internet is what we actually need. Adapting the internet to our specific wants has had a negative impact on us. The author of a book, The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser seems to agree with that theory. He explains in the book that an algorithm is used to display things that we might like to see. The algo