76 Quotes by Eli Pariser

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.

The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.