The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
| Full title | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power |
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| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| Published | 2019 |
| Pages | 704 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Shoshana Zuboff’s argument that Google discovered a new economic logic — behavioural surplus harvested from users and sold as prediction — and that the rest of the industry copied it. The most-cited hostile account of the ad-funded internet, and the source of the term itself. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble at South Towne, Sandy — August 2024 (Books photo album)
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Replies to @WillManidis — named in the replies to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Privacy — the stake.
- Silicon Valley — the industry under indictment.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.