---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jarno Mikael Koponen <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:21 AM Subject: My new Techcrunch article: "The Future Of Algorithmic Personalization" To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Hi Michel, I hope you're well! Your work on creating digital alternatives keeps inspiring me, both professionally and personally. Thought you might find this interesting/thought-provoking. My new story "The Future Of Algorithmic Personalization" just out on Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/the-future-of-algorithmic-personalization/ "Because of the personalization gaps and internal paradox, personalization remains unfulfilling and incomplete. It leaves us with a feeling that it serves someone else’s interests better than our own... There are three design and development paths that would help personalization to serve us better as unique individuals." "There’s no objectivity (nor should there be claims of objectivity) in the realm of personalization. We shape the algorithms and the algorithms shape us continuously. To serve us better, personalization algorithms should be able understand our subjective way of seeing connections and meanings around us." "Personalization as a concept derives from the world of industrial mass production and marketing. Maybe, in order to mark a new era of algorithmically assisted decision-making — and to emphasize the importance of personal agency — we should talk about choice algorithms instead of personalization algorithms. Who would build such choice algorithms for us?" All feedback welcome, many thanks! -Jarno M., https://twitter.com/ilparone -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/