Like most people living in the suburbs, Janice Monkowski gets around mainly by car. For much of her life, public transit was not even an afterthought. That changed recently when Monkowski, a self-described technophobe (技术恐惧者), discovered Moovit. When she went to San Francisco to meet friends, the smartphone app let her plan the bus and train trips down to the minute. “Moovit tells me where to walk and how long it might take to catch a bus to get to the train station.” Monkowski says.

Much like the navigation app Waze, which follows its users on the road to determine the best driving routes. Moovit collects location data provided by other nearby users to show how to travel along the way with less time and energy between two places. Nir Erez who cofounded Moovit says, “Most commuters don’t know when a bus might arrive-let alone how it might connect with another transit service-or when walking or bicycling might be faster.”

In just five years Moovit has had 100 million users. Moovit is available in 44 languages and 78 countries, and commuters in 1, 500 cities rely on it to get to and from work. In 2016, Moovit became the official transit app for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, beating out Apple and Google. When public transit doesn’t get a user all the way to where they want to reach, Moovit may connect a user to bike-share programs or services like Uber.

As Moovit has grown to 100 employees, with headquarters near Tel Aviv and offices in big cities, such as San Francisco, Athens and Rio it can provide better, more up-to-date information at a lower cost. Best of all: It’s built one data point at a time by people like Monkowski. When you go to San Francisco and don’t want to drive before the city’s “terrible” parking and traffic, Moovit can give you another choice. It is very simple.

Algorithms (算法) affect nearly every part of a person's experience on the Internet. Search engines are most people' s entry to the Internet.If a person wants to find information about something, they usually start with a search bar.As soon as they start typing or choosing links,the algorithm starts gathering data about every choice users make and uses that data to try to find the websites or information that most directly relate to what the user is looking for.

The problem with algorithm is that they can limit the kinds of information people see,says MacMillan,a reading researcher with Project Information Literacy (能力). He argues this can be harmful to people's critical thinking and lead them to believe that only one point of view is correct.

Companies also pay to post advertisements for products that could relate to users' search data. For example,if you search for places to take a vacation,you will likely start to see ads for travel companies, flights or hotels.

Renee Hobbs, director of the Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island, however, argues that algorithms are not all bad. She says search engine algorithms can help you find what might be the most useful information faster. But she says it is in the interests of Internet companies to keep users on the Internet for as long as possible so they see more ads.

The current generation of young people grow up using the Internet and they are prone(易于遭受) to distrustful information.That is why schools must train students how to use the Internet more wisely in their Studies.It is the duty of education to keep students informed about the world around them. Yet it is not the duty of education alone. And lawmakers should consider increasing data protection rules. Individuals can also use a wide variety of websites to avoid algorithmic controls.

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