🎧 Surveillance Capitalism

My conversation with Shoshana Zuboff

Hi,

I had a fascinating conversation with Shoshana Zuboff who coined the term surveillance capitalism and researched it extensively.

In our discussion, Shoshana and I cover:

• What is surveillance capitalism and how is it different from capitalism as it is normally understood?

• The evolution of Google as the first surveillance capitalist. 

• Economics of scale, scope and action as forms of harm. 

• The loss of decision rights and wider assault on human autonomy and agency. 

• How can we integrate guardrails to safeguard the beneficial aspects of technology, whilst preventing its covert use by surveillance capitalists. 

• Why privacy law and legislation are insufficient to control surveillance capitalism. 

• How surveillance capitalism in China developed in the private tech sector. 

• The birth of the information citizen, and what this means for surveillance capitalism. 

You can listen to the podcast here or on the platform of your choice (just search for Exponential View). 

Read the extended transcript, which …