The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff
Genre: Technology
Language: English
Country: United States
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Year: 2018
Format: Hardcover
Audience: Adult
Price: $20.00
Rating: 4.7/5
Reading Time: 10 hours
Analyzes new economic order claiming human experience as free raw material for commercial practices.
Cultural Notes: Definitive analysis of the digital economy.
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Professor
The most important book of our time.
Rating: 5/5
Mark
Dense but essential.
Rating: 4/5
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