In Algorithms We Trust

Whatever happened to personal choice?  Now a days it seems like every time we get on a computer it starts making decisions for us, tracking every cybermove we make.  Telling us what to buy, what to listen to, and what to look at, and the worst part of all is that we welcome and enjoy this.  Algorithms are systematically taking over our digitized lives.  This can also be seen in education, everything is standardized and formulated.  Even English class can't escape this.  Having gone through the public school system I can easily recall the successful formula for writing a good constructed response.  It goes restate the question, the story title and author, then answer the question using 3 examples from the story, then restate the question again with the title and author, and fit it all within the given space, then do this over and over again with different stories and questions.  How did the class where creativity is supposed to reign fall victim to nothing more than a formula that mind as well be x + y + k = answer?   People need to start relying more on themselves and less on computers to make decisions for them, or else what's the point of even having the ability to choose if we're just going to give it to computers, we mind as well live in the matrix, or be brainwashed by Cris.