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

The challenges to humanity posed with the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented type of power called ‘surveillance capitalism,’ as well as the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and study, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the sensation that she has named monitoring capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human character in about The Age of Monitoring Capitalism: The Battle for a Individual Future at the brand new Frontier of Power the twenty-first century just as commercial capitalism disfigured the natural globe in the twentieth.

Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as monitoring capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast prosperity and power are gathered in ominous fresh ‘behavioral futures marketplaces,’ where predictions about our behavior are bought and offered, and the creation of products and services is usually subordinated to a new ‘means of behavioral modification.’

The threat has shifted from a totalitarian YOUR GOVERNMENT state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a ‘Big Other’ operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of the unprecedented form of power marked by intense concentrations of knowledge and clear of democratic oversight. Zuboff’s extensive and moving analysis lays uncovered the risks to twenty-first hundred years society: a managed ‘hive’ of total connection that seduces with claims of total certainty for optimum profit–at the expense of democracy, independence, and our human future.

With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is around the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future–if we allow it.