In some ways I like Google Now. It can organize things on my phone utilizing Google's vast knowledge about my activities online. But the same thing bothers me

In some ways I like Google Now. It can organize things on my phone utilizing Google's vast knowledge about my activities online. But the same thing bothers me deeply. Our lives have become subjects to these machine learning algorithms. They feed us meaningless click-baity titles, advertisements and notifications that aren't all that important. That's how their huge business operations roll after all. We've become a generation that subconsciously write to feed the machines, not humans; and there's no easy way out in sight.