Episode 1582: Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff is Professor Emerita of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Today we’re speaking to her about her latest book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.”
The book analyses – and condemns – the business model that has turned the Silicon Valley giants into some of the world’s most profitable and powerful companies.
#Surveillancecapitalism is on a collision course with democracy. “It is not only we who have been sleepwalking, but democracy itself that has been sleepwalking. Our goal must be to awaken the public mind,” says @shoshanazuboff: https://t.co/QJtdqwRxrz
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Why does Professor Zuboff liken Google and Facebook to the Spanish conquistadores landing in 15th- and 16th-century America?
The tech giants have made fortunes from predicting people’s behaviour. What if the next step is to control it?
In this excerpt from her new book, Shoshana Zuboff writes that ‘at its zenith in the summer of 2016, Pokémon GO was a surveillance capitalist’s dream come true: a living laboratory for behaviour modification that fused scale, scope and action.’ https://t.co/LyQWMfP5B0
— LMd English (@LMdiplo) January 17, 2019
The speed of their advance has confounded attempts to control and regulate them. Are there any grounds to believe that surveillance capitalism can still be reined in?
Dear Friends, my new piece in @guardian on regulating #SurveillanceCapitalism responds to Facebook’s Nick Clegg and related bamboozlement. How to regulate for the 21st century? Here’s a start: https://t.co/2hV8uYf7TM
Mr. Clegg, be careful what you wish for.— Shoshana Zuboff (@shoshanazuboff) July 2, 2019
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