Thread · 3 tweets · 17 Apr 2019

"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism", by @shoshanazuboff. There are several reasons to read this book. It is very well documented and can serve as a reference for the slippery slope of the past two decades; she provides parts for a framework with which to understand...

...the battlelines in today's data economy (in which privacy is but one flashpoint); and she threads a clear intellectual tradition on the side of the surveillance industry from totalitarianism to Pentland and through Skinner that is illuminating. This provides too rare...

...history and context. On the downside, the book is too long. I say that of most books, but particularly so here. The arguments are not better for being revisited. It's still worth reading, but be prepared to skim some parts.