New Book on Algorithms set to be Bestseller after Cambridge Analytica Scandal

A new book on algorithms and how they control our lives is looking to be a bestseller upon release after the Cambridge Analytica scandal of the past few weeks. Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives was set to be published later this year, but the publication has been brought forward due to the recent news and revelations from social media.

The book, which looks at modern day algorithms and how they control our day to day lives will be published on 19^th April, with the eBook released on the same day. Author David Sumpter is a mathematical modeller and is a professor of applied mathematics in Sweden. In this investigation he looks at Cambridge Analytica and interviews Global Science Research founder Aleksander Kogan, who was launched into the news this week by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie.

While the news that the Cambridge Analytica algorithms may have affected the US election results and Brexit, it can be hard for the layman to understand why, but in this critical look at how algorithms work, we find out what an algorithm-driven future might mean for us, and whether it’s really a bad thing.

Outnumbered could not be a more timely release and given the news of the last few weeks about algorithms and about how the machines may already be controlling our thoughts (have the robots already taken over?!), it’s likely to be one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year.