![]() ![]() Surveillance capitalism was born when technology firms realized they could make money using this behavioral data. ![]() ![]() The first part is mainly descriptive, demonstrating how companies like Google and Facebook discovered what Zuboff calls the “behavioral surplus.” (63) This surplus is the data surveillance capitalists accumulate when consumers use their services. The book lays out its argument in three sections. The message is clear: if surveillance capitalism continues on its present course, human freedom and agency might disappear from the face of the Earth. Zuboff, Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School, argues that her book is an “effort to understand surveillance capitalism and its consequences.” (17) To accomplish this, the book waxes and wanes between vivid descriptions of exploitative digital surveillance practices and abstract philosophizing about the nature of human freedom in a surveillance-filled world. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff is an impassioned warning about the dangers associated with commercial surveillance. ![]()
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So, when his vampire ex-coworker dumps Albigard of the Unseelie on Len's doorstep, he gives her two hours to find a better hiding place for the fae fugitive before tossing him straight to the curb with the rest of the garbage. A moot point, since this one definitely is - he knows that much from bitter experience. Len's been told that not all fae are scheming, manipulative pricks. That's not even the weirdest thing to happen to him this week. ![]() There's an unconscious fae drooling on Len's couch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heir of Novron is one of the best and most satisfying conclusions to a series that I’ve ever read. I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: If you had told me that I'd be a New York Times Bestselling author, have 85+ novels translated into 13 languages, and sold more than 2 million copies, I never would have believed you! I returned to writing in 2004, and published my first novel with a small press in 2008. Serious writing started in my twenties, but after more than a decade trying to publish (and getting nowhere), I quit altogether. I first opened the door to my imagination with typewriter keys while playing hide and seek and finding a black behemoth when I just ten years old. I'm a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author with 9 Goodreads Choice Award Nominations. Thanks for visiting my page! Here are other sites where you can contact me. We are just doing one more typo check past our Gamma readers then it's off to the printers! The ebook and audiobook will release August 15th, with the hardcover coming as soon as it's in our hands. We've finished the recording of the audiobook and the layout. ![]() It's starting to gain some momentum - it's now trending on Audible.Įsrahaddon, the last book in the Rise and Fall trilogy, is almost done. 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