Tag Archives: Life in a Glass House
Everything In It’s Right Place – An Essay by Josh Baker
The Genre as a Bounded Social Construct Like virtually everything else in our reality, the musical genre is not a naturally occurring phenomenon, but a socially constructed category of objects… Read more
Life in a Glass House – Josh Baker
The Information Problem In 1986 Theodore Roszak estimated that “a weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in… Read more
Rushing to Judgement – Josh Baker
In response to the polemic article “…The Tough Get Spinning…” by Alex Giannattasio I would like to take this opportunity to respond to a number of criticisms leveled against my… Read more
Pharmacologic – Josh Baker
We say the map is different from the territory. But what is the territory? Operationally, somebody went out with a retina or a measuring stick and made representations which we… Read more
Life in a Glass House – Computerized Recommendations
By Josh Baker
In recent years, as our computer technologies have become more sophisticated, many functions which were once performed exclusively by trained workers (e.g., those of the cashier, the bank teller, and even the family doctor) may now be accomplished in large part through the use of automated online systems. Online shopping sites, commercial banking sites, and health information sites (such as WebMD) allow consumers to access and use a formidable number of services without the direct aid of another person. Even many occupations which previously seemed impervious to computerized outsourcing (as with the aforementioned family doctor) may ultimately face just such a fate.
