Algorithms can’t be trusted, claim the authors of The Hidden Lives of Algorithms: Geometry and Social Meaning in Architecture. The most efficient solution to something may have built into it prejudices that have tangible and significant cultural implications. Authors Philip D. Plowright and Silvio Carta focus on the social implications that result from algorithmic thinking. Plowright and Carta’s assumptions categorically associate formal characteristics with social, psychological, and emotional meaning, but reality is much more nuanced than that. This is true for spatial algorithms, too.