Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?

No one is original anymore, not even you. The message of many things in America is "Like this or die."-- George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context, 1980 The Seeing Robot The camera is a small, white, curvilinear monolith on a pedestal. Inside its smooth casing are a microphone, a speaker, and an eye-like lens. After I set it up on a shelf, it tells me to look straight at it and to be sure to smile! The light blinks and then the camera flashes. A head-to-toe picture appears on my phone o...