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Senior Policy Advisor and Big Tech Strategy, UK Government; formerly at Cabinet Office, Wired UK and The Economist.
Apr 6, 2019 16 tweets 4 min read
#SurveillanceCapitalism from @shoshanazuboff is a MUST read. But at over 700 pages, it’s a beast, so in the thread below I’ve outlined some key ideas. Zuboff introduces a new language to help define an emerging system of power. Also see @susskind_TBA @MazzucatoM @profgalloway 1/ Surveillance capitalism (S.C.) is “a new economic order that claims human experience as free material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction and sales”.