From Steve Dalton
I found Anil Ananthaswamy’s review of The Master Algorithm fascinating (31 October, p 44). I couldn’t help wondering whether the algorithm, along with all its threats of replacing people’s livelihoods, might also have detected FIFA’s obvious corruption, doping in major sporting events and the hand of vested interest in political policy, among many other things.
If it were capable of doing this, and we were all still allowed freely to know about it, then it may be a different world that results, but one I’d happily leave to my son.
Chipstead, Kent, UK
