http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/12/have_faith.php Wired editor Chris Anderson offers a spirited defense of internet "systems" like Wikipedia, Google, and the blogosphere. Criticism of these systems, he argues, stems largely from our incapacity to comprehend their "alien logic." Built on the mathematical laws of probability, they "are statistically optimized to excel over time and large numbers." They sacrifice "perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale." Our "mammalian minds," by contrast, are engineered not to apprehend the wonders of... en-us http://www.agwright.com/blog/archives/001007.html Nick Carr makes the humanist case against Chris Anderson's defense of probabilistic systems like Google and Wikipedia, taking issue with Anderson's argument that qualitative criticisms of these systems fail to recognize the virtues of sacrificing "perf...