The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
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Shoshana Zuboff : Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
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The imperatives of #surveillance_capitalism mean that there must always be more behavioral surplus for #Google and others to turn into surveillance assets, master as prediction, sell into exclusive markets for future behavior, and transform into capital. At Google and its new holding company called Alphabet, for example, every operation and investment aims to increasing the harvest of behavioral surplus from people, bodies, things, processes, and places in both the virtual and the real world.
Shoshana Zuboff : Secrets of #Surveillance Capitalism
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Governmental control is nothing compared to what #Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call #surveillance_capitalism. Is there nothing we can do?
Google surpassed Apple as the world’s most highly valued company in January for the first time since 2010. (Back then each company was worth less than 200 billion. Now each is valued at well over 500 billion.) While Google’s new lead lasted only a few days, the company’s success has implications for everyone who lives within the reach of the Internet. Why? Because Google is ground zero for a wholly new subspecies of capitalism in which profits derive from the unilateral surveillance and modification of human behavior. This is a new surveillance capitalism that is unimaginable outside the inscrutable high velocity circuits of Google’s digital universe, whose signature feature is the Internet and its successors. While the world is riveted by the showdown between Apple and the FBI, the real truth is that the surveillance capabilities being developed by surveillance capitalists are the envy of every state security agency. What are the secrets of this new capitalism, how do they produce such staggering wealth, and how can we protect ourselves from its invasive power?