What if we had perfect robot referees?

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Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky

What if we had perfect robot referees? Three UK social scientists (and fans of Liverpool Football Club), Harry Collins, Robert Evans, and Christopher Higgins, say we don't want that. "These moments, when highly trained athletes quibble with the all-knowing judgment of a machine, make for weirdly thrilling television. It feels as if the athletes are standing in for the rest of us, as though we forfeit a bit of what makes us human when we let a computer make the call."
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-had-perfect-robot-referees

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