Necessity of filters

Filters are necessary to find value amongst all the noise.

We know that traditional content is filtered and polished by whoever has the power to alter the initial product before it is put out there. It prevents overabundant content (like Sturgeon's law) from ever polluting the world. But if our individual filters are strong enough and powerful enough, then maybe more is better. We can decide for ourselves what to filter through.

What we really need is better and stronger guidance and recommendations. And we are moving to the recommendation age by taking the power into our own hands, collaborating and sharing our opinions. We need recommendations from other people, we need reviews from reputable sources, we want technology to aid us without strong outside bias, and we want it to be free.

Recommendations and conversation are important, crucial, helpful, and just dandy. I embrace them. What concerns me is the power filters hold over our society.

Will we fall too far into specifically altered worldviews - filtering out what doesn't interest us? Don't we already do this, to some extent anyway? Will this translate into our reality? Will we eliminate others, being submersed in a world of our own interests?