The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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Publikuota 2019 m. gruodžio 9 d.

ISBN:
978-1-78125-685-5
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is a 2019 non-fiction book by Shoshana Zuboff which looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation that she calls "surveillance capitalism".While industrial capitalism exploited and controlled nature with devastating consequences, surveillance capitalism exploits and controls human nature with a totalitarian order as the endpoint of the development.

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No es la primera vez que leo este libro. Me encanta leerlo de vez en cuando, no sólo por lo bien documentado que está, sino por lo bien escrito que está también.

Hay algunos aspectos del análisis de Shoshana con los que no estoy muy de acuerdo, sobre todo su perspectiva política encuadrada en lo legal y los márgenes permitidos del capitalismo.

Fuera de ese detalle, me parece un análisis muy interesante, entretenido y aveces hasta poético. Lo que me gusta particularmente de este libro es el cómo se anuncia que lo que está en juego con las Big Tech -ella les llama Big Other- es una competencia por manipular lo que hasta ahora consideramos humano, a través de la recolección y minado de datos, casi infinitos.

I knew it was bad, but ... wow

I had no idea this book was this large when I borrowed it from a library. It somehow hit my list and came up in rotation. It's 700 pages, but just over 500 pages of content. The rest is reference material, notes and bibliography.

The author does a fantastic way of describing the recent history of data surveillance and how it's been monetized. We aren't really the product, but are the objects where raw material is mined for prediction engines that attempt to figure out how we will act or nudge us to act.

The first part deals with big tech. There's a part about totalitarianism, then moving into recent psychology and how all these are tied together.

Expect 10-15+ hours of reading with this. Value!

This made me and keeps me thinking. Wonderful book, but probably not for all.

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