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Are you in a filter bubble?

Are we spending so much time on our own “bubbles” of health, they we have lost perspective on big picture needs, constructs and people? Hmm I wonder if our policy makers are listing? http://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s

http://www.ted.com As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy.
Read our community Q&A with Eli (featuring 10 ways to turn off the filter bubble): http://on.ted.com/PariserQA

Filter Bubble

 

Curtesy of TEDTalks