![]() ![]() 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. Surveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every move with the goal of predicting and. Zuboff’s comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to 21st 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. ![]() Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. 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. 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.” Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. ![]() The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the 21st century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the 20th. ![]() In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. ![]()
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