[Al] Kindle The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight
for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By Shoshana Zuboff
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed
examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance
capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control
our behavior.In this masterwork of original thinking and research,
Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she
has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global
architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the
twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural
world in the twentieth.Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as
surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic
sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral
futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and
sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new
"means of behavioral modification."The threat has shifted
