Grief content is haunting my digital life | MIT Technology Review
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I’ve spent months trying to untrain the algorithms that were relentlessly serving me content on loss.
Grief content is haunting my digital life | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content I’ve always been a super-Googler, coping with uncertainty by trying to learn as much as I can about whatever might be coming. That included my father’s throat cancer. Initially I focused on the purely medical. I endeavored to learn as much as I could about molecular biomarkers, transoral robotic surgeries, and the functional anatomy of the epiglottis. Then, as grief started to become a likely scenario, it too got the same treatment. It seemed that one of the pillars of my life, my dad, was about to fall, and I gr
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