CURRENT AWARENESS

The video on Eli Pariser and "filter bubbles" highlights the automated programs that sift through our personal social media newsfeeds to provide us with ideas or recommendations that we might take a genuine interest in.

The conceptual concern is that even with core search engines such as Google, any two people searching the same link might generate completely different results.

I don't know about you guys but this looks like web babysitting to me! Was never too keen to read George Orwell's 1984, so I don't like conformist ideology of putting all of one's eggs in a single basket!

Bring back links to the Deep Web and watch all controversy in the resource sector implode as we really begin to understand how much information is actually filtered on the net, stuff that may even be attributed to major research in the field of politics or science!