Susan Crawford: "BigMedia needs to get into the business of writing algorithms rather than news stories."

Yes! and on a similar note, I said the same thing about lawyers last week at my digital discovery presentation. When all of the information in a large piece of litigation is digital, the advantage goes to the law firm that can best assimilate and understand the data. In the old days, we sent teams of junior lawyers into warehouses for weeks at a time to review mountains of documents. In the not-too-distant future, we'll send software bots. The law firm with the best discovery algorithm wins.

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