The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Read by
Nicol Zanzarella
Release:
01/15/2019
Release:
01/15/2019
Runtime:
24h 17m
Runtime:
24h 17m
Quantity:
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
A #1 Amazon.com bestseller in Information Theory
A McKinsey Business Book of the Year
A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century
Shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year in Nonfiction
A Barack Obama Reading List Pick
Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Writing
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Sunday Times (London) Best Book of the Year
The “groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming”(Financial Times) exposé of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior
The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.
The fight for a human future has never been more urgent. Shoshana Zuboff argues that we still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in: Will we allow surveillance capitalism to wrap us in its iron cage as it enriches the few and subjugates the many? Or will we demand the rights and laws that place this rogue power under the democratic rule of law? Only democracy can ensure that the vast new capabilities of the digital era are harnessed to the advancement of humanity. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply original, exquisitely reasoned, and spell binding examination of our emerging information civilization and the life and death choices we face.
The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.
The fight for a human future has never been more urgent. Shoshana Zuboff argues that we still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in: Will we allow surveillance capitalism to wrap us in its iron cage as it enriches the few and subjugates the many? Or will we demand the rights and laws that place this rogue power under the democratic rule of law? Only democracy can ensure that the vast new capabilities of the digital era are harnessed to the advancement of humanity. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply original, exquisitely reasoned, and spell binding examination of our emerging information civilization and the life and death choices we face.
Release:
2019-01-15
2019-01-15
Runtime:
Runtime:
24h 17m
24h 17m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
1.55 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781478947271
9781549149979
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