The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Jan 2019 · Hachette Audio
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The “groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming”(Financial Times) exposé of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior
The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.
The fight for a human future has never been more urgent. Shoshana Zuboff argues that we still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in: Will we allow surveillance capitalism to wrap us in its iron cage as it enriches the few and subjugates the many? Or will we demand the rights and laws that place this rogue power under the democratic rule of law? Only democracy can ensure that the vast new capabilities of the digital era are harnessed to the advancement of humanity. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply original, exquisitely reasoned, and spell binding examination of our emerging information civilization and the life and death choices we face.
The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.
The fight for a human future has never been more urgent. Shoshana Zuboff argues that we still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in: Will we allow surveillance capitalism to wrap us in its iron cage as it enriches the few and subjugates the many? Or will we demand the rights and laws that place this rogue power under the democratic rule of law? Only democracy can ensure that the vast new capabilities of the digital era are harnessed to the advancement of humanity. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply original, exquisitely reasoned, and spell binding examination of our emerging information civilization and the life and death choices we face.
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Gui Goncalves
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July 12, 2025
It is dull. Very, very dull. Reads like the self-indulgent prose of an academic, full of long sentences, passive voice and gratuitous enumeration. The narrator does it justice by refraining from expressing a single human emotion other than boredom for over 24 hours of narration. If you can stomach that, 1. you are a geek! Chances are, you already know what this book is about and don't need my review; 2. you need to listen to this. It explains so much. It's just a shame that I can't recommend it to a single person in my life, as there's no way they'll listen.
A Google user
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February 8, 2019
I've legitimately been talking about this book since 4th grade, I'm a hs. senior rn& I'm excited,I cant wt.
Stevie Graham
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February 1, 2020
If you're having trouble sleeping...this is the book for you!
About the author
Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus Harvard Business School. She is the Co-Directory of the International Research Fellowship on Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Zuboff’s work has been recognized with the Axel Springer Award, the EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Global Privacy Assembly Giovanni Buttarelli Award.
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