algorithmic spirituality

To be human is to yearn for a Sky Daddy. Something that explains the unexplainable, someone to blame. No wonder, then, that in the ZIRP-fueled 2010s, when a new gospel of creation was being spread, some people started to see technology as a kind of religion. And on the eighth day, He made a mobile app that delivered us our daily bread —that sort of... See more

They’ve never known life without “the algorithm” curating their media or without instant access to collaborative digital spaces. Even the youngest of this generation can explain how social media feeds work. As 7-year-old Lily told me matter-of-factly, “It’s something called the algorithm — it just came up on your screen.”