The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy; 5. As significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth; 6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy; 7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty; 8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.” ⤴️
“I recognized the oldest political questions: Home or exile? Lord or subject? Master or slave?” ⤴️
“each generation must assert its will and imagination as new threats require us to retry the case in every age.” ⤴️
“The digital realm is overtaking and redefining everything familiar even before we have had a chance to ponder and decide.” ⤴️
“the sense of a predictable future slips away” ⤴️
“Information and communications technologies are more widespread than electricity, reaching three billion of the world’s seven billion people.1” ⤴️
“The entangled dilemmas of knowledge, authority, and power are no longer confined to workplaces as they were in the 1980s.” ⤴️
“the oldest questions must be addressed to the widest possible frame, which is best defined as “civilization” or, more specifically, information civilization. Will this emerging civilization be a place that we can call home?” ⤴️
“It is in the nature of human attachment that every journey and expulsion sets into motion the search for home. That nostos, finding home, is among our most profound needs is evident by the price we are willing to pay for it.” ⤴️
“Home need not always correspond to a single dwelling or place. We can choose its form and location but not its meaning. Home is where we know and where we are known, where we love and are beloved. Home is mastery, voice, relationship, and sanctuary: part freedom, part flourishing… part refuge, part prospect.” ⤴️
“The sense of home slipping away provokes an unbearable yearning. The Portuguese have a name for this feeling: saudade, a word said to capture the homesickness and longing of separation from the homeland among emigrants across the centuries.” ⤴️
“1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; 2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification; 3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history; 4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy; 5. As significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth; 6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy; 7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty; 8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.” ⤴️
“I recognized the oldest political questions: Home or exile? Lord or subject? Master or slave?” ⤴️
“each generation must assert its will and imagination as new threats require us to retry the case in every age.” ⤴️
“The digital realm is overtaking and redefining everything familiar even before we have had a chance to ponder and decide.” ⤴️
“the sense of a predictable future slips away” ⤴️
“Information and communications technologies are more widespread than electricity, reaching three billion of the world’s seven billion people.1” ⤴️
“The entangled dilemmas of knowledge, authority, and power are no longer confined to workplaces as they were in the 1980s.” ⤴️
“the oldest questions must be addressed to the widest possible frame, which is best defined as “civilization” or, more specifically, information civilization. Will this emerging civilization be a place that we can call home?” ⤴️
“It is in the nature of human attachment that every journey and expulsion sets into motion the search for home. That nostos, finding home, is among our most profound needs is evident by the price we are willing to pay for it.” ⤴️
“Home need not always correspond to a single dwelling or place. We can choose its form and location but not its meaning. Home is where we know and where we are known, where we love and are beloved. Home is mastery, voice, relationship, and sanctuary: part freedom, part flourishing… part refuge, part prospect.” ⤴️
“The sense of home slipping away provokes an unbearable yearning. The Portuguese have a name for this feeling: saudade, a word said to capture the homesickness and longing of separation from the homeland among emigrants across the centuries.” ⤴️