The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
- Author(s)
- Shoshana Zuboff
- Publication
- Londen : Profile Books, 2019
- Scope
- 692 Pages, 19.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781781256855
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? Zuboff has written a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight. As it explores this new capitalism's impact on society, politics, business, and technology, it exposes the struggles that will decide both the next chapter of capitalism and the meaning of information civilization. Most critically, it shows how we can protect ourselves and our communities and ensure we are the masters of the digital rather than its slaves.
- Keywords
- surveillance , fear , neo liberalism , internet - post internet , capitalism
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Surveillance ; Veiligheid ; Angst
- Extra themes
- Digitization - implications of
- Remarks
- Incl. Notes, Index
