The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The fight for the future at the new frontier of power

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Hardback The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The fight for the future at the new frontier of power

Author: Zuboff, Shoshana

Publication year: 2019

Language: English

Media Hardback

Classification: 303.4833

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, 2019

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 1781256845 9781781256848

Notes:

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions. Tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder, whether government or retailer. Profits now depend not only on predicting our behaviour but modifying it too. How will this fusion of capitalism and the digital shape our values and define our future? Shoshana Zuboff shows that we are at a crossroads. We still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in, and what we decide now will shape the rest of the century.