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>https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/02/age-of-surveillance-ca<span
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review</b> -
we are the pawns</div>
<div>Tech companies want to control every aspect of what we do, for
profit. A bold, important book identifies our new era of
capitalism</div>
<div>/.../</div>
<div>What is hinted at throughout the text, and made explicit in
Zuboff's closing insistence that subsequent generations must face up
to this epochal challenge to the future, is that such utopian schemes
are destined to fail. As experience has shown, the world - life
itself - is cloudy, contingent and defined by change. As horrifying
as the surveillance capitalists' view of a totally controlled,
perfectly articulated and error-free future might be, the inevitable
failure of its vision, and the resultant violence - already evident
in our fractured worldviews, competing fundamentalisms, weakening of
social bonds, and distrust of one another - is perhaps more so. The
work begins in demolishing the framework of this world order, but it
continues in the</div>
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<div>Tl;Dr</div>
<div>E. Morozov's review:</div>
<div>https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov</div
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