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665 reviews for:
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
3.97 AVERAGE
665 reviews for:
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
3.97 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
NYT Notable Books 2019: 17/100
While nothing in this book totally shocked me, it was nice to have various suspicions confirmed (your phone is listening to you and giving you ads accordingly, it's not a coincidence when you walk into a mall and start getting ads for stores there, etc.). Even in the five years since this book was written, even more has changed and spiraled further out of control (and nothing has really improved). Now women are scared to use period tracking apps in case what they track there can be used against them in the future. So that's ... something...
Anyway, this book started off really strong, but it felt like it waned towards the end. The second half of the book felt a lot less focused than the first part and was suddenly covering a lot more ground, to the point I was sometimes confused about how something was going to tie back to Zuboff's main ideas. Overall though, this was a solid and honestly pretty freaky read. It's dense, but worth the read, particularly as an audiobook.
While nothing in this book totally shocked me, it was nice to have various suspicions confirmed (your phone is listening to you and giving you ads accordingly, it's not a coincidence when you walk into a mall and start getting ads for stores there, etc.). Even in the five years since this book was written, even more has changed and spiraled further out of control (and nothing has really improved). Now women are scared to use period tracking apps in case what they track there can be used against them in the future. So that's ... something...
Anyway, this book started off really strong, but it felt like it waned towards the end. The second half of the book felt a lot less focused than the first part and was suddenly covering a lot more ground, to the point I was sometimes confused about how something was going to tie back to Zuboff's main ideas. Overall though, this was a solid and honestly pretty freaky read. It's dense, but worth the read, particularly as an audiobook.
Just be sure how much you want to know about this subject before embarking on this monster. Made me regret my google home assistant a little and glad I don’t have a Facebook account. Will we all end up puppets of Silicon Valley? I like to think not.
Stunning read. I feel like I didn't understand anything about Google or Facebook before reading this book. Fascinating connections between tech, human nature, and freedom.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
slow-paced
such a well researched book! i learned so much.my only complaint is that zuboff alluded to but didn’t clearly address why people may trade privacy for security , and that privacy is not a universal value
fast-paced
Very hard to get through. Repetitive and over complicated. The writer needed a better editor.
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Self-important writing. Thoughts jump all over the place and ideas are rarely elaborated on within a chapter. Over-complicated terminology is pointlessly used in a manner which fails to enhance the ideas discussed. Overall, poorly written and not informative for anyone who has a working knowledge of predictive advertising.