Even without blatant or overt blockage of information flow, the current crop of algorithms attempting to divine our desires can already leave us cut off from the information we might really need to know. 



http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html



Shows Google searches on Egypt by two people, one of would have been left ignorant of the uprisings there simply looking at the first page of results.  In fact his results showed information on travel in Egypt!    One could imagine in a not to distant future where his news 'feeds' would be helpfully customized and personalized to the extent that he could get notified of 'great deals on cheep trips to Egypt' and only learn of events when he hit the ground (or hopefully when applying for a Visa).   



Jim   



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You picked a good day to mention that.  Check out this from Ars Technica 

today

  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/how-the-robber-barons-hijacked-the-victorian-internet.ars



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have yet to heed?





Adam Smith said that companies use government regulation as a means to 

restrict newcomers from access to the market.



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