What Happens When Google Develops the Elusive Talent Algorithm?

New Equities is a progressive collection of thinkers that always challenge and inspire me.  Recently their blog New Equities posted an interesting and thought provoking article "Google's quest for the elusive talent algorithm", that articulates Google's efforts at creating a tool for assessing the "fit" of a person for a particular job.

Call me old fashioned if you will, but this is a bit too Orwellian for me.  I do not doubt that getting data on a persons beliefs and behaviors can be useful in fitting to a particular situation, but there's still nothing like the experience and "gut" of a trained interviewer looking you in the eye, and the non-tactile sense that you get about a candidate.  Call it chemistry or whatever, I question how such a tool would be used in practice.