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==In popular culture==
The novels [[Daemon (novel series)|''Daemon'']] (2006) and ''[[Freedom™]]'' (2010) by [[Daniel Suarez (author)|Daniel Suarez]] describe a fictional scenario of global algorithmic regulation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rieger |first1=Frank |title=Understanding the Daemon |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/english-version-understanding-the-daemon-1621404.html |access-date=5 April 2020 |work=FAZ.NET |language=de}}</ref> [[Matthew De Abaitua]]'s ''If Then'' imagines an algorithm supposedly based on "fairness" recreating a premodern rural economy.<ref>Stainforth, Elizabeth and Jo Lindsay Walton. "Computing Utopia: The Horizons of Computational Economies in History and Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies, vol. 46 no. 3, 2019, p. 471-489. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/sfs.2019.0084.</ref>
The 1970 [[David Bowie]] song "[[The Man Who Sold the World (album)|Saviour Machine]]" depicts an algocratic society run by the titular mechanism, which ended famine and war through "logic" but now threatens to cause an apocalypse due to its fear that its subjects have become excessively complacent.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Unterberger |first1=Richie |title="Saviour Machine" – David Bowie |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/saviour-machine-mt0052219333 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=9 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704103805/https://www.allmusic.com/song/saviour-machine-mt0052219333 |archive-date=4 July 2019}}</ref>
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