like all predictions/warnings it never quite paints the right colours, the correct vista even though it looks in the right direction.

In the Trump election I warned "Be afraid, America, be very afraid!" - not because I could see the future. But after the Arab Spring, Brexit, and all those ads that follow your recent surfing and some pretty extreme idiocy from a "friend" who posted the most egregious crap he obviously believed - I glimpsed the gears grinding.

Call me paranoiac but this lady on TED.com explains it better, and at length. We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia.

It is why we are getting left-field political results. Because the movers understand Goggle and Fakebook better and use them better. It is also polarizing people. We are more than ever a divided society.

And my chosen appellations for them are a heads up, not a whimsey.

My solution? Not much of one, but intend to browse for the most uninteresting (to me) stuff. Give them algorithms some serious noise.