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

4.0

Shoshanna Zuboff makes me want to go learn things good. You could use this book to knock someone out so it definitely left me feeling a bit out of my depth for vast portions. However, the author writes clearly and eloquently about deeply complex topics and I think I understood some of it even so that's a good sign. I would say I personally prefer listening to the author talk about her thoughts and theories in an interview setting (there's a good one on YouTube for Channel 4 news UK, even though the interviewer does his classic thing of constantly interrupting his guest's thoughts, but she does a good job of holding her boundaries like 'I'll finish my point and cycle back to that if I may' with a sweet smile and I would love to be half as cool someday. I came across this book after watching The Social Dilemma and again her contributions on that documentary were excellent. Haven't yet figured out a fair system to rate nonfiction so leaving the rating blank.