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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
Somewhere in these 700 pages is a top-class 250 page book.
There's far too much repetition, coining of terms, and maybe even downright conspiracy theory.
There's a lot of well researched truths in hear, struggling to get out from over-reading, over-statement, over-interpretation, and side issues that feel irrelevant.
There's far too much repetition, coining of terms, and maybe even downright conspiracy theory.
There's a lot of well researched truths in hear, struggling to get out from over-reading, over-statement, over-interpretation, and side issues that feel irrelevant.
Required reading for anyone who plans to 1) be alive for the foreseeable future 2) not be complicit in the oppression of yourself and, more importantly, millions of others who are far more vulnerable than you and are being systematically surveilled, tracked, hunted down, caged, tortured, and disappeared.
This is not hyperbolic. I’m dead serious and I have receipts.
NoTechForICE.com
This is not hyperbolic. I’m dead serious and I have receipts.
NoTechForICE.com
A great dive into the current state of our digital lives. Zuboff examines the technology, the corporate powers, the politics, philosophy and social psychology of today's invasive digital world. She weaves these concepts together such that you gain a big picture view of our current state with detail that gives unwavering support thereof.
Four stars for the writing, the ideas contained, the research and the intensity of her message. But undeniably, a slog is the biggest word I can use to describe this book. The first section was amazing, and the last three chapters were great, but that middle part.... ooph.
excellent without peer. the matrix but for real. get into it, time is short.
This ended up being too polemical to finish. There is certainly a concern with the tech companies and the US and other countries surveilling us and using us as their raw materials for profit, but this took too much space being fear-mongering. I think it could have gotten the point across without being so over the top.
This critique is better than mine: https://blaynehaggart.com/2019/02/15/evaluating-scholarship-or-why-i-wont-be-teaching-shoshana-zuboffs-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/
This critique is better than mine: https://blaynehaggart.com/2019/02/15/evaluating-scholarship-or-why-i-wont-be-teaching-shoshana-zuboffs-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/
An astute commentary on the current state of affairs. Predicting and selling human behavior has become big business. Soon the algorithms of google and Facebook will know us better than we know ourselves. No wait, they already do. Every like you make, every click, every purchase is collected for future use. If you aren’t worried about your online privacy, you missed the memo.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced