![]() ![]() ![]() As the Zucked author recently put it to Fortune: “The problem today is that…the people are not the customers the people are the fuel.” To extend the analogy, the erosion of democracy is, one might suppose, equivalent to the existential threat of climate change. See the public apostasy of Roger McNamee, a Facebook investor and onetime Mark Zuckerberg mentor who has become one of the media giant’s most vociferous critics. It’s a point that many stars of the techie-literati have been making of late. In a data-driven world, all roads lead here: Corporations plundering personal information for profit. ![]() Instead, they are to be harvested for behavioral data.” The information economy, “artificial intelligence,” big data-pick your euphemism. As she wrote at the time, “Under surveillance capitalism, populations are not to be employed and served. The phrase is the title of a new book by Shoshana Zuboff, a retired Harvard Business School professor who helped popularize the term in a 2014 essay for a German magazine. ![]()
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