The Age of Surveillance Capitalism : The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

from ichadwick

An excellent loom at the technology, companies, and advocates for surveillance capitalism. Detailled and rich, it should stand as a warning to this and future generations much like Arendt did for hers. Perhaps a bit overly long and occasionally repetitive, it is nonetheless an important work.

from willszal

The band Editrix begins their debut album with the line, "I did it for the Instagram." In "Surveillance Capitalism," we quickly learn the poignant truth of this lyric. Zuboff has spent her career exploring the question, "do we run the machine, or does it run us?" At the heart of this book is a qu...

from haloedrain

Parts 1 and 2 do a good job at putting things I already knew together into a pattern. Part 3 gets a little wild at times, but all in all a good book.

from Ma_Washigeri

An epic read, terrifying, and a relief that it's not just my imagination and that other people are taking it seriously. It will take me months to digest but the most immediate idea I take away is how all sorts of things like insurance of all kinds, travel and medical monitoring will compel us to ...

from kukulaj

Zuboff argues that our modern social media, Facebook on smartphones etc., are an unprecedented new form of power grab. She relates this to similar power grabs throughout history: the agricultural revolution, Columbus in the Caribbean, the Ford assembly line, etc. She sees the way we get embedded ...