The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Shoshana Zuboff Paperback

Description: Title: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Author: Zuboff, Shoshana Publisher: PublicAffairs Binding: Paperback Pages: 704 Dimensions: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.40d Product Weight: 1.58 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781541758001 The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests 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 democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.   Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer

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Book Title: PublicAffairs

Number of Pages: 704 Pages

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

Language: English

Publisher: Publicaffairs

Publication Year: 2020

Subject: Industries / Computers & Information Technology, Information Theory, Social Aspects, Consumer Behavior, Social Aspects / General, Information Technology

Item Height: 1.6 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 24.7 Oz

Author: Shoshana Zuboff

Item Length: 9.2 in

Subject Area: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback