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278 | Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Impact of Technology on Ranking and Classification in Society
This chapter explores how technology has revolutionized the ranking and categorization of individuals in society, from credit scores to personalized ads, raising questions about convenience versus individuality in the digital age. It discusses the evolution of ranking processes over the last 50 years, the history of computing, and how machines mimic human behavior in classification. The conversation also highlights the challenges of accurately collecting social data and the diversity in categorization methods despite the underlying reality being the same.
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