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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
slow-paced
Well worded indictment, plenty of evidence.
"Under this new regime, the precise moment at which our needs are met is also the precise moment at which our lives are plundered for behavioural data, and all for the sake of others’ gain. The result is a perverse amalgam of empowerment inextricably layered with diminishment. In the absence of decisive societal response that constrains or outlaws this logic of accumulation, surveillance capitalism appears poised to become the dominant form of capitalism in our time."
"Under this new regime, the precise moment at which our needs are met is also the precise moment at which our lives are plundered for behavioural data, and all for the sake of others’ gain. The result is a perverse amalgam of empowerment inextricably layered with diminishment. In the absence of decisive societal response that constrains or outlaws this logic of accumulation, surveillance capitalism appears poised to become the dominant form of capitalism in our time."
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Excellent. Easy to follow and understand. Makes its case comprehensively and convincingly. Immediately made me take more steps to protect my information and significantly accelerated my move to open source products. Successfully ignites your indignation and spite which move you to action.
Brilliant expose! Detailed research and mindful analysis on the role that Silicon Valley and its products, including Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc., continue to play in surreptitiously snaking into our personal domain, violating privacy and taking over our very ability to think for ourselves.
The author does repeat herself time and again, a lapse that is overlooked when such a large volume of information is being shared and needs context to be provided for ready reference.
A must read!
The author does repeat herself time and again, a lapse that is overlooked when such a large volume of information is being shared and needs context to be provided for ready reference.
A must read!
I tried to get through this book but I ran out of time from the library. It was dense and redundant, but I get the main point that big tech is using all our data without informed consent to get us to buy more things through predicting our wants from post behaviors. I don’t love that for us
describing how data behemoths take the information trail that we leave online to profit from it and set up new networks of control. They can see us quite well but we see them through a looking glass darkly. This asymmetry puts the power in these corporation's hands to allow for manipulation psychological and of the wallet. Knowledge may be power but it seems to concentrate in the hands of a few tech giants. Unseen paranoid tech influence.
Not saying it's bad - among other things, it's extremely heavily researched - but it is a bit of a tirade. Hey, why say something in 100 pages when you could take 600 pages, right?
Big tech is at the root of surveillance capitalism and most people love it. Saved you reading 500 pages. But seriously, this book could have been half as long and it would have been more compelling. The author loves long, fanciful sentences that try to drive the severity of her perspectives but neglects conciseness as if she was paid by the word. I liked the book but couldn’t wait to get to the end.
Your phone and computer are listening to you, there's no denying it anymore.
As someone wearing a Fitbit that has signed up on Goodreads through Facebook, I had a deep appreciation for this book's unshakeable determination to create a dialogue around digital privacy. And from a woman that's studied personally under BF Skinner, of the infamous "Skinner Box"? Woof, it gets heavy in regards to behavioral economics.
Zuboff created an easily digestible book that examines the implications of the slippery slope that's been made real around data privacy and the ethics behind "who decides and who decides who decides" how and for what purpose we collect personal information. The one and only PRISM by the CIA basing its information collection off Google's data collection structure is hauntingly revealing, as is the fact that we're having one-sided and isolating conversations in the form of marketing "nudges" between ourselves and companies hell-bent on destroying our humanity until we become perfect capitalists. Next time I see an annoying commercial, I'll be sure to scream about how shitty that company is into my laptop's microphone and you should too.
I can't wait until I get hit by a self-driving car that calculates that some other Tesla driver is more worth saving or buy one of those hoodies that screw with facial recognition cameras. My only criticism is that Zuboff quotes Hannah Arendt so much she should've put her whole book in there.
Throw out your Yuval Noah Harari books, this and Christopher Lasch are so, so much better.
As someone wearing a Fitbit that has signed up on Goodreads through Facebook, I had a deep appreciation for this book's unshakeable determination to create a dialogue around digital privacy. And from a woman that's studied personally under BF Skinner, of the infamous "Skinner Box"? Woof, it gets heavy in regards to behavioral economics.
Zuboff created an easily digestible book that examines the implications of the slippery slope that's been made real around data privacy and the ethics behind "who decides and who decides who decides" how and for what purpose we collect personal information. The one and only PRISM by the CIA basing its information collection off Google's data collection structure is hauntingly revealing, as is the fact that we're having one-sided and isolating conversations in the form of marketing "nudges" between ourselves and companies hell-bent on destroying our humanity until we become perfect capitalists. Next time I see an annoying commercial, I'll be sure to scream about how shitty that company is into my laptop's microphone and you should too.
I can't wait until I get hit by a self-driving car that calculates that some other Tesla driver is more worth saving or buy one of those hoodies that screw with facial recognition cameras. My only criticism is that Zuboff quotes Hannah Arendt so much she should've put her whole book in there.
Throw out your Yuval Noah Harari books, this and Christopher Lasch are so, so much better.
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.