Franklin Foer ” Mark Zuckerburg’s War on Free Will” Essay

Couple of hours According to Franklin Foer in his article, “Mark Zuckerburg’s War on Free Will,” there is a long tradition in the West of wanting to replace “bum politicians” (61) with technocrats – what Foer calls “Engineer Kings.” Foer goes on to state that the notion of algorithms (defined on p.67 as “procedures that enable mechanical thinking”) is also not new, but dates back to the seventeenth century. For this first paper, I want you to discuss the following question: To what extent does the influence of fusebook in our lives present a new kind of danger to (1) individual freethinking and (2) our social and democratic institutions? 3 full pages and citations included.