Algorithms that help us make decisions eventually leave us facing a paradoxical choice. Are you ready to give control over your own life to external factors?

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The system

CONTOUR

It does not arrive as an enemy. It arrives as an answer to the human desire to make fewer mistakes.

First, the system helps.
Then it predicts.
Then it recommends.
And finally — it defines the limits of what is possible.

The question is no longer only whether you trust the system.

The question is whether you will notice the moment when you stop choosing for yourself.

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The screens in the room stopped flickering. They simply glowed with an even, warm white light that scattered the shadows so neatly, as if shadows were a technical malfunction.

Outside the window, the evening metropolis hummed at medium frequencies. Streams of people moved smoothly, without sudden stops. Almost nobody collided at crossings. Nobody ran on the stairs.

Once, people called this planning.

Now it was called background.
Author

Vitalii Migovich

I write about what does not leave me alone.

I am interested in people — their thoughts, beliefs, fears, freedom, faith, knowledge, and the way they create explanations of the world and then begin to live according to them.

I do not claim to have final answers. I am more interested in questions that make us reconsider what once seemed obvious.

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