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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

3.97 AVERAGE

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brittastrophee's review against another edition

3.0
challenging informative slow-paced

robwil's review against another edition

3.0
Useful insights and tons of data points, but extremely annoying writing style. Should be a lot shorter.

noasbookark's review against another edition

3.5
slow-paced
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almofi's review against another edition

3.25
informative slow-paced
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rlaurene's review against another edition

3.5
challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The first half of this book is a remarkable exploration of the history of companies who collect and sell our data. Part terrifying, part informative, it gives a background to the actions and principles of these companies.

The main problem of the book is that the author loves using 20 words where 10 will do, and tries to be overly poetic at times. The third section is essentially philosophical rambling, which was difficult to follow. 

tayshon's review against another edition

3.5
challenging informative reflective slow-paced

snoopfrog's review against another edition

3.0
very scary, very important content. but dear god it needed to be 1/4 as dense of a text as it is currently

dvshnkr's review against another edition

4.0
dark informative medium-paced

youngserfs's review against another edition

4.5
informative reflective slow-paced

spicedude68's review against another edition

5.0
Super well researched. Thought provoking throughout. At time very pedantic and unreachable. I took my time reading this book (almost 2 years). I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand where the new frontiers of the internet are.