![]() ![]() Her argument proceeds in three stages, which I’ll address in turn:Ĭompanies like Google and Facebook have an “extraction imperative” to continually “expropriate” more personal data about their users. And she neglects to account for the benefits of technology, or explain how we should weigh them against the harms. I do believe that there are significant problems with the technology industry - but mostly different problems from the ones she focuses on. ![]() The result is far more polemical than persuasive. Zuboff spends much of the book outraged at the behaviour of big tech corporations, but often neglects to explain what’s actually bad about either the behaviour itself or the outcomes she warns it’ll lead to. It’s received glowing reviews, but left me disappointed. I recently finished Shoshana Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. ![]()
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