“…apps that claim to engineer serendipity seem more likely to do the reverse. Their main offense is not ubiquitous surveillance, but that they stand to destroy surprise and, with it, true serendipity. Rather than enriching our lives with unexpected encounters and genuine strangers, they threaten to take the mystery and the magic out of people we don’t know”

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Messing With Fate

It’s rare that I agree with Andrew Keen, but here he pipped me in an article about digital serendipity solutions, for The Atlantic.

5:13 pm  •  13 September 2012  •  2 notes