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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.

Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification."

The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit — at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future.

With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future — if we let it.

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"It's hard to recall a book that left me as haunted as Zuboff's, with its descriptions of the gothic algorithmic daemons that follow us at nearly every instant of every hour of every day to suck us dry of metadata.” Sam Biddle, The Intercept

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"Many adjectives could be used to describe Shoshana Zuboff's latest book: groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming, alarmist, preposterous. One will do: unmissable.” John Thornhill, Financial Times

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"From the very first page I was consumed with an overwhelming imperative: everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.” Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and No Logo, and Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University

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"Shoshana Zuboff has aimed an unsparing light onto the shadowy new landscape of our lives. The picture is not pretty." Nicholas Carr, Los Angeles Review of Books

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"If a book's importance is gauged by how effectively it describes the world we're in, and how much potential it has to change said world, then in my view it's easily the most important book to be published this century...” Zadie Smith

About the Author

Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor emerita, Harvard Business School. She is the author of In The Age of the Smart Machine: the Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and her BA from the University of Chicago. For more information see: ShoshanaZuboff.com.

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readdeep , June 28, 2021
If you want to read about a conspiracy that is real and not just plausible, but easily visible in your daily life, then this is a book for you. The basic question is, when have you ever known something of great value given to everyone for free without a catch? Why is Google Search and email and Drive and all the rest free? Ditto Facebook? How have Google and FB made so much money? If it were advertising revenues alone, then broadcast TV and cable networks would have huge revenues too, but they don't. So where is all that profit coming from. Then ask yourself - Do you ever have the sense that your devices know more about you than you've told them? Or that pricing is no longer fixed, but seems to be based on your browser history? Or that real information about businesses or industries seems to be missing from the Search results? Or that despite being the largest, most powerful computing network in the world, Google is rarely in the news and when it is, it's usually short-lived? Ditto Facebook, Apple and all the telecoms? Except when they generate the news for themselves of course. Well this book gives you answers to those questions. Yes Shoshana Zuboff is an academic, but her writing is approachable, researched and logically laid out. She explains her terms in everyday language and is a passionate defender of the rights of people to have power over their own lives, free from capitalists mining their personal lives for profit and control. Everyone should read this book.

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Doug Korty , December 31, 2020 (view all comments by Doug Korty)
If you have had to deal with academics and other intellectuals, you know the experience of listening to someone who has developed the talent of sounding like they are saying something intelligent or profound when, in fact, they are not. This book is a perfect example of that phenomenon. The author really has nothing important or even coherent to say but she has a talent for sounding like she is saying something intelligent. If you can stand to read this book and try to summarize the message, you will find that there really is nothing there. That is one of the tragedies of academia, that people like this author are allowed to teach and are paid very high salaries and given honors. It is a sign of the extreme decadence of our elite society. God help us. There is no bibliography and not a single table of statistics or graph in the entire 691 page book. I doubt if there are more that a few statistics. Not recommended.

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