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The tale of two global orders, surveillance capitalism and democracy, locked in a zero-sum death match over who will rule the digital century
Surveillance capitalism is what happened when American democracy gifted the new digital terrain of the internet to private companies, enabling them to own and operate the information and communication spaces of global society. It produced mythic wealth and became the dominant economic paradigm in only two decades based on an extraordinary, brazen, audacious, and deeply antidemocratic idea: that predictions of human behaviour can be sold in bulk like tons of wheat or barrels of oil.
The consequences have threatened the democratic order from above and below, weakening essential democratic institutions, displacing authentic social solidarity, and undermining individual capabilities associated with autonomy, common sense, and self-determination without which the democratic project is unimaginable.
Just a few years since the publication of Zuboff's groundbreaking The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the need for unflinching solutions has never been greater. Our democracies are under the kind of siege that can only be cured with new institutions, rights, and laws. This is an urgent call to action from one of the greatest thinkers of our time.
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Praise for The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defence
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Naomi Klein
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Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff has been called 'the true prophet of the information age' by the Financial Times for her ground-breaking book, In the Age of the Smart Machine. She is now the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School as well as Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. In 2006, strategy+business magazine named her one of the eleven most original business thinkers in the world.