The Secret Life of Algorithms: From Ancient Clay Tablets to Your TikTok Feed
Kyu Hwang Cho
Inventor in telematics; Eco-SciFi Author; Restaurateur
April 8, 2025
What if we told you the thing deciding what you see on Instagram, who you meet on a dating app, or even what you buy online—wasn’t magic, but a set of instructions? An invisible recipe? These are algorithms—and far from being a modern invention, they’ve been with us since th…