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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
3.97 AVERAGE
664 reviews for:
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
3.97 AVERAGE
DNF: 113 pages in, skimmed the rest.
99% worthless, no new ideas or concepts. Blabbers. Yapps. Useless author.
This should be a blog post (300 words) not 700 pages (140 of them are footnotes lmao).
Do not buy this junk.
99% worthless, no new ideas or concepts. Blabbers. Yapps. Useless author.
This should be a blog post (300 words) not 700 pages (140 of them are footnotes lmao).
Do not buy this junk.
challenging
dark
informative
tense
slow-paced
This was a fascinating and disturbing read. Quite long, and a bit dense--not *quite* unreadably academic, but closer to that then is my general preference. Lots of really interesting information, though I couldn't help feel a bit defeated by it all and I wish there'd been something hopeful at the end or even just some ideas on how we can try and take action against the increasingly pervasive surveillance capitalism besides wholesale abstinence, which frankly isn't a super viable option.
A truly brilliant pieces of work. It leaves you overwhelmed and terrified and sadly with a lot of questions about what on earth do we do to improve things in a world that has sleep walked into a world controlled by surveillance capitalists. Answers on a very big postcard...
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Gave up due to the flowery prose, feels like the narrative would be great, but one for blinkist or similar to summarise
Good but very demanding read. First time a book took me six months as I had to start and stop multiple times over. Shoshana makes a strong case, builds it on solid arguments on a subject that will be on people minds and discussion more and more. The way she projects her thoughts and her step by step approach made it a very difficult to follow as the proof path was very exhausting. It had the feeling of reading an academic paper after an academic paper... nothing bad taking into account the subject and the profession of the author.
For those that will not read it definitely check it out. Last week I saw the paperback in a bookstore which made it for me the first time that I bought the hardcover close to its release date and up until reading it paperback was released.
For those that will not read it definitely check it out. Last week I saw the paperback in a bookstore which made it for me the first time that I bought the hardcover close to its release date and up until reading it paperback was released.
A telling book about all the dirty tactics big corps use to gain information. Author also hates pokemon go.
The book falls down because its conclusions are far too absolutist - it focuses on the words of Great Men, such as CEOs and academic theorists, over the experiences of people at the receiving end of the surveillance capitalism described here. There's something serious to be written on this subject, but this is mostly extrapolation from intent, rather than empirical reportage of affect. The book claims power by asserting quite histrionic naming of the phenomena that it describes, and repeats itself endlessly. It's a shame, because it's a serious and intelligent discursion that is clearly entered into earnestly. But we really need to know less about what Eric Schmidt might have said and more the corrupting effect on those less powerful. The omissions here, such as a lack of description of the way the alt-right has managed to take advantage of YouTube's algorithms, are significant. It's unclear, also, what the writer would have us do differently. I didn't come away from the book feeling as if I'd really learned anything, or wished to pursue any of the ideas discussed any further.