Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor
emerita, Harvard Business School. She is the author of In The
Age of the Smart Machine: the Future of Work and Power and
The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals
and the Next Episode of Capitalism. She received her Ph.D. from
Harvard University and her BA from the University of Chicago. For
more information see: ShoshanaZuboff.com.
@shoshanazuboff
"A panoramic exploration of one of the most urgent issues of our
times, Zuboff reinterprets contemporary capitalism through the
prism of the digital revolution, producing a book of immense
ambition and erudition. Zuboff is one of our most prescient and
profound thinkers on the rise of the digital. In an age of inane
Twitter soundbites and narcissistic Facebook posts, Zuboff's
serious scholarship is great cause for celebration."--AndrewKeen,
author of How to Fix the Future
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is brilliant and
essential. Shoshana Zuboff reveals capitalism's most dangerous
frontier with stunning clarity: The new economic order of
surveillance capitalism founded on extreme inequalities of
knowledge and power. Her sweeping analysis demonstrates the
unprecedented challenges to human autonomy, social solidarity, and
democracy perpetrated by this rogue capitalism. Zuboff's book
finally empowers us to understand and fight these threats
effectively--a masterpiece of rare conceptual daring,
beautifully written and deeply urgent." --RobertB. Reich,
author of The Common Goodand Saving Capitalism: For the Many,
Notthe Few
"Shoshana Zuboff has produced the most provocative compelling
moral framework thus far for understanding the new realities of our
digital environment and its anti-democratic threats. From now
on, all serious writings on the internet and society will have to
take into account with The Age of Surveillance
Capitalism."--Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon ChairProfessor,
Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
An International BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book
of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Sunday Times (UK) Best Business Book of the Year Selected
by Barack Obama, Zadie Smith (in the Wall Street Journal), Jia
Tolentino (in the New Yorker), Elif Shafak (in the Guardian), and
Ana Botin (in Bloomberg) as one of the best books of 2019
Finalist for the Financial Times/McKinsey Best Book of the
Year Award
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"An original and often brilliant work, and it arrives at a
crucial moment, when the public and its elected representatives are
at last grappling with the extraordinary power of digital media and
the companies that control it. Like another recent masterwork of
economic analysis, Thomas Piketty's 2013 Capital in the
Twenty-First Century, the book challenges assumptions, raises
uncomfortable questions about the present and future, and stakes
out ground for a necessary and overdue debate. Shoshana Zuboff
has aimed an unsparing light onto the shadowy new landscape of our
lives. The picture is not pretty."--NicholasCarr, LOS ANGELES
REVIEW OF BOOKS
"Extraordinarily intelligent... Absorbing Zuboff's
methodical determination, the way she pieces together sundry
examples into this comprehensive work of scholarship and synthesis,
requires patience, but the rewards are considerable - a heightened
sense of awareness, and a deeper appreciation of what's at stake. A
business model that seeks growth by cataloging our 'every move,
emotion, utterance and desire' is too radical to be taken for
granted. As Zuboff repeatedly says near the end of the book, 'It is
not O.K.'"--JenniferSzalai, NEW YORK TIMES
"Many adjectives could be used to describe Shoshana Zuboff's
latest book: groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming, alarmist,
preposterous. One will do: unmissable... As we grope around in
the darkness trying to grasp the contours of our digital era,
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism shines a searing light on
how this latest revolution is transforming our economy, politics,
society - and lives."--John Thornhill, FINANCIAL TIMES
"My mind is blown on every page by the depth of Shoshana's
research, the breadth of her knowledge, the rigor of her intellect,
and finally by the power of her arguments. I'm not sure we can
end the age of surveillance capitalism without her help, and that's
why I believe this is the most important book of our
time."--Doc Searls, author of The Intention Economy,
editor-in-chief, Linux Journal
"Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is already
drawing comparisons to seminal socioeconomic investigations like
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Karl Marx's "Capital."
Zuboff's book deserves these comparisons and more: Like the former,
it's an alarming expose about how business interests have poisoned
our world, and like the latter, it provides a framework to
understand and combat that poison. But The Age of Surveillance
Capitalism, named for the now-popular term Zuboff herself coined
five years ago, is also a masterwork of horror. It's hard to recall
a book that left me as haunted as Zuboff's, with its descriptions
of the gothic algorithmic daemons that follow us at nearly every
instant of every hour of every day to suck us dry of metadata. Even
those who've made an effort to track the technology that tracks us
over the last decade or so will be chilled to their core by Zuboff,
unable to look at their surroundings the same way."--Sam Biddle,
THE INTERCEPT
"The rare volume that puts a name on a problem just as it
becomes critical... This book's major contribution is to give a
name to what's happening, to put it in cultural and historical
perspective, and to ask us to pause long enough to think about the
future and how it might be different from today."--Frank Rose,
WALLSTREET JOURNAL
"A book that no tech industry official will want the American
public to read... One of the true joys of this insanely brilliant,
deeply unsettling book is how fluidly Ms. Zuboff's style
incorporates jargon, analogy, research and memoir."--PITTSBURGH
POST-GAZETTE
"A definitive, stunning analysis of how digital giants like Google,
Facebook, etc. have single-mindedly pursued data on human behavior
as fodder for generating predictions and shaping outcomes salable
to advertisers and others...The scope of her analysis is
extraordinary; in addition to covering philosophical, social, and
political implications she discusses needed privacy
regulation...This book is pathbreaking, illuminating, and
unnerving."--CHOICE
"A warning bell, sounded clearly for both the people in danger and
of those with the power to do something to keep them safe... a
truly sobering shock to the system, a call for ordinary people to
re-assert control before it's too late."--THE NATIONAL (UAE)
"An intensively researched, engagingly written chronicle of
surveillance capitalism's origins and its deleterious prospects for
our society... [Zuboff's] after something bigger, providing a
scaffolding of critical thinking from which to examine the great
crises of the digital age... This is the rare book that we
should trust to lead us down the long hard road of
understanding."--Jacob Silverman, NEWYORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Chilling and essential."--GLOBE AND MAIL
"Eye-opening...she raises questions about businesses that mine
personal data, manipulate our desires for instantaneous
information, and encourage us to narcissistically display our egos
and foibles on social media platforms."--SAN ANTONIO
EXPRESS-NEWS
"From the very first page I was consumed with an overwhelming
imperative: everyone needs to read this book as an act of
digital self-defense. With tremendous lucidity and moral
courage, Zuboff demonstrates not only how our minds are being mined
for data but also how they are being rapidly and radically changed
in the process. The hour is late and much has been lost already-but
as we learn in these indispensable pages, there is still hope for
emancipation."--Naomi Klein, author of ThisChanges Everything and
No Logo, and Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist
Studies at RutgersUniversity
"I will make a guarantee: Assuming we survive to tell the tale,
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has a high probability of
joining the likes Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Max
Weber's Economy and Society as defining social-economics
texts of modern times. It is not a 'quick read'; it is to be
savored and re-read and discussed with colleagues and friends. No
zippy one-liners from me, except to almost literally beg you to
read/ingest this book."--TomPeters, coauthor of In Search of
Excellence
"If a book's importance is gauged by how effectively it describes
the world we're in, and how much potential it has to change said
world, then in my view it's easily the most important book to be
published this century... Zuboff is concerned with the largest
act of capitalist colonisation ever attempted, but the colonisation
is of our minds, our behaviour, our free will, our very selves. Yet
it's not an anti-tech book. It's anti unregulated capitalism, red
in tooth and claw. It's really this generation's Das
Kapital."
--Zadie Smith
"In the future, if people still read books, they will view this as
the classic study of how everything changed. The Age of
Surveillance Capitalism is amasterpiece that stunningly reveals
the essence of twenty-first-century society, and offers a dire
warning about technology gone awry that we ignore at our peril.
Shoshana Zuboff has somehow escaped from the fishbowl in which we
all now live, and introduced to us the concept of water. A work of
penetrating intellect, this is also a deeply human book about what
is becoming, as it relentlessly demonstrates, a dangerously inhuman
time."--Kevin Werbach, TheWharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, and author of The Blockchain and the New Architecture
of Trust
"One of the most important criticisms of the power of Big
Tech."--Rana Foroohar, FINANCIAL TIMES
"Staggeringly brilliant."--WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
"The defining challenge for the future of the market economy is the
concentration of data, knowledge, and surveillance power. Not just
our privacy but our individuality is at stake, and this very
readable and thought-provoking book alerts us to these
existential dangers. Highly recommended."--DaronAcemoglu, coauthor
of Why Nations Fail
"The most ambitious attempt yet to paint the bigger picture and to
explain how the effects of digitisation that we are now
experiencing as individuals and citizens have come about... A
continuation of a tradition that includes Adam Smith, Max Weber,
Karl Polanyi and-dare I say it-Karl Marx... A striking and
illuminating book."--THE OBSERVER
"Zuboff is a strikingly original voice, simultaneously bold and
wise, eloquent and passionate, learned and accessible. Read
this book to understand the inner workings of today's digital
capitalism, its threats to twenty-first century society, and the
reforms we must make for a better tomorrow."--Frank Pasquale,
University of Maryland Carey School of Law, Author of The Black Box
Society
"Zuboff's expansive, erudite, deeply-researched exploration of
digital futures elucidates the norms and hidden terminal goals of
information-intensive industries. Zuboff's book is the
information industry's Silent Spring."--ChrisHoofnagle,
University of California, Berkeley
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