The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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by Shoshana Zuboff (Author)

An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior

“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times

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.

Review

One of the most important criticisms of the power of Big Tech.-- "Rana Foroohar, FINANCIAL TIMES"

Staggeringly brilliant.-- "WINNIPEG FREE PRESS "

A warning bell, sounded clearly for both the people in danger and of those with the power to do something to keep them safe... a truly sobering shock to the system, a call for ordinary people to re-assert control before it's too late.-- "THE NATIONAL (UAE)"

"An agenda-setting book that is devastating about the extent to which big tech sets out to manipulate us for profit...involving the monitoring and shaping of our behavior, often without our knowledge, with profound implications for democracy."

-- "The Guardian (London)"

The most ambitious attempt yet to paint the bigger picture and to explain how the effects of digitisation that we are now experiencing as individuals and citizens have come about... A continuation of a tradition that includes Adam Smith, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi and-dare I say it-Karl Marx... A striking and illuminating book.-- "THE OBSERVER"