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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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rae_yancey's review against another edition

4.0
challenging informative reflective medium-paced

knightofswords's review against another edition

4.0
Great, but needed an editor
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johnbat's review against another edition

4.0
challenging informative reflective slow-paced

javabooks's review against another edition

3.0
slow-paced

timothy_wright's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced
trucked through this in 2-3 days as part of my mission to read all my library books before leaving the city. surprisingly insightful to the layperson and every so often i would feel pleased with myself for understanding the book B)

knihowc's review against another edition

4.0
challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced
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melalt's review against another edition

4.5
informative

kaichai's review against another edition

4.0
Overall, this is a good book covering an important topic, with flaws. The author does not seem to understand what AI/ML is or the mathematics behind it. Bias is fairly easy to rectify should the AI engineers be made aware of the issues in their models. But privacy rights and data access is the larger problem at hand and there are no easy ways to handle the situation. FAANG companies (and data companies at large such as Palantir) will not stop collecting as much data as possible on the population until there are regulations with severe penalties implemented.

This book does not use data to back up its claims, and this data is reasonably available to access. The writing is prone to hyperbole and tends to make doom and gloom predictions about the future.

But it does cover the sociological explanations of why it was such a speedy process to accepting surveillance writ large.

professorfate's review against another edition

4.0
Interesting and frightening, but really, REALLY dry.

kwheeles's review against another edition

4.0
Deeply thought provoking. The writing style is a bit intellectual my tastes at points.