Andrew Hankinson

Have we all become slaves to algorithms?

Kyle Chayka sees their constant feeds as flattening our lives, but the spread of Americanisation, which began long before the internet, is the real steamroller

Cultural homogenisation: Kyle Chayka describes being directed by his phone to independent coffee shops across the world which all look the same, despite no head office controlling them. [Getty Images]

  • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

    Kyle Chayka

    Bonnier Books, pp. 304, £22

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