Age of the Algorithm: Living, Working, and Thinking in the New Era of Machines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798272908001)

You interact with algorithms hundreds of times a day. You've never thought about them once.

They wake you up, curate your news, plan your commute, filter your job applications, suggest your lunch, and analyze your spending. By evening, invisible systems have shaped what you see, know, buy, and believe-without you noticing.

This is the Age of the Algorithm. And it's time you understood what's really going on.

From the AI deciding who gets hired to the system determining bail, from social media feeds designed to be addictive to healthcare algorithms that deny treatment, these systems promise efficiency but deliver surveillance, bias, and concentrated power.

In this essential guide, Tudor Finneran reveals:

• How algorithms actually work-demystified for everyone, no coding required
• Why they're not neutral-the hidden values and choices embedded in every system
• Where they're already controlling your life-and how to recognize it
• The real-world harms: Cambridge Analytica, biased policing algorithms, discriminatory hiring systems
• What resistance looks like-from GDPR to worker organizing to technical alternatives
• How to protect yourself-practical strategies for digital autonomy

The algorithms know you better than you know yourself.

This book teaches you to question what you've been told to accept. To recognize when systems are operating and whose interests they serve. To demand transparency, fairness, and accountability from the invisible infrastructure governing modern life.

Perfect for readers of Weapons of Math Destruction and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.