At the start of the article Doctorow's poor grammar choice of using too many improper nouns made it a difficult read.<p>> trying to reimpose <i>that</i> which is being fought against<p>> When they only take into account <i>those</i> they consider as <i>such</i><p>I got the intent of these sentences on some rereads, but these were poor noun choices from a communication perspective.<p>> In other words, restaurants automatically adapt their menus to the customer’s taste<p>> You can only get out of such a society if you start walking away from the centers of power — and from everything that ties you to the system.<p>A working solution is to train people to say "No". If you tell the algorithm that you aren't interested in its selections at this time the AI will, necessarily, broaden its propositions. And teaching people to say "No" is a very good thing to do, as too many of us are taught to default to just accepting what those in power offer.<p>> I can’t believe that it only takes one click today for the whole world to find out what you’ve set in motion.<p>This is because you (Doctorow) have done the hard work of becoming famous enough that people pay attention to you and spread your ideas around. One click doesn't cut it for anyone just starting out.<p>> The changes will only be real if we act analogically. In other words, the digital world must be a world of encounters, but we must stay on the street. It’s the analog that produces change<p>Saying "No" or "Yes" is a binary, not an analog. Try pretending that the offerings of Big Data AIs aren't Hobson's choice, and you might be surprised at what actual choice there is. Unlike Hobson, AIs want you to say "Yes" to one of their offers, and will offer you as much as they can to get that "Yes".<p>> “the only way to win an ideological battle is to extinguish the imagination, and that’s what neoliberalism is trying to do through technology.”<p>I'm pretty sure that many ideologues are trying to convert people to their ideologies by <i>sparking</i> the imagination, not by extinguishing it.<p>> My 15-year-old daughter knows that the system can’t offer her anything<p>Because she has come to this conclusion on her own, or because you have in-Doctorow-inated her to believe this?