Are Amazon, Netflix, Google Making Too Many Decisions For Us?

That article on Forbes focuses on how we depend on technology to take a lot of decisions on technology and corresponding devices. The issue the writer, Joel Delman, asks the question whether we should depend on technology so much and depend entirely on them. To my mind there's another angle to this whole thing. As technology gets into suggesting songs I would like, drives my car, navigates to my destination etc. there is this distinct possibility that all this can be manipulated. Someone van really manipulate the technology to affect many of us in a planned manner. So, you need checks and balances to prevent such eventuality. Usually, these get overlooked in the initial glow of the technology capabilities and developing the checks and balances may take a back seat and be quite late. At the rate technology is moving, there will an overload of these overdue controls. Who's going to manage all these!

Are Amazon, Netflix, Google Making Too Many Decisions For Us? - Forbes.com