Shoshana Zuboff on the Economics and Perils of Surveillance Capitalism
Podcast via https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/01/15/surveillance-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff-facebook-data?
"How Tracking And Selling Our Data Became A Business Model"
Description
"What is crucial now is that we identify this new form of capitalism on its own terms and in its own words. This pursuit necessarily returns us to Silicon Valley, where things move so fast that few people know what just happened. It is the habitat for progress “at the speed of dreams,” as one Google engineer vividly describes it. My aim here is to slow down the action in order to enlarge the space for such debate and unmask the tendencies of these new creations as they amplify inequality, intensify social hierarchy, exacerbate exclusion, usurp rights, and strip personal life of whatever it is that makes it personal for you or for me. If the digital future is to be our home, then it is we who must make it so. We will need to know. We will need to decide. We will need to decide who decides. This is our fight for a human future." (https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/01/15/surveillance-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff-facebook-data?)