Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss.

The first hype books about algorithms appeared around 2012. Last year, sanity began to prevail with Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction. And now we have Hannah Fry's Hello World ...

As well as positive applications, your book is packed with stories of the harm that algorithms can do. Describe those for us. The harm occurs when algorithms are given too much power. Returning to ...