I think the author forgot his concept halfway through the book.  That’s a pity, because I think I’d have liked the book the author was going to write.  This felt an awful lot like a collection of interesting bits of data that the author attempted to will into a book, because the stated objection – to demonstrate via data mining sites like Facebook and Google that our public preferences don’t always align with our true beliefs – falls by the wayside midway through.  It was […]