I think Douglas Adams was fairly prescient back in 1987: "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washe

I think Douglas Adams was fairly prescient back in 1987: "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe." Replace the chirpy lady in this article with an algorithm, replace the potential matches with algorithms too, and we're there.