THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM / THE FIGHT FOR A HUMAN FUTURE AT THE NEW FRONTIER OF POWER

The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a Big Other operating in the inte rests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society : a controlled hive of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit--at the expense of democrac y, freedo...[Read more]