The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Wow! You should definitely take a look at this interview with the author of new book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The interview is so full of zingers that I don't even know which one is best. Author Shoshana Zuboff just lays it all out.

It is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal  now is to automate us. These processes are meticulously designed to  produce ignorance by circumventing individual awareness and thus  eliminate any possibility of self-determination. As one data scientist  explained to me, “We can engineer the context around a particular  behaviour and force change that way… We are learning how to write the  music, and then we let the music make them dance.”

The interview in The Guardian can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook