Surveillance Capitalism Quotes

“If the PC ceases to be at the center of the information technology ecosystem, the most restrictive aspects of information appliances will come to the fore.”
― Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

“Privilege is just another word for not having to care.”
― Aral Balkan

“The geek inherited the earth”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“Growth is good, at least for those doing the growing.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“The internet arrived for most of us in the late 1990s, into a society where the middle class was starting to crumble and where financial insecurity was rising, and we were sleeping an hour less than people did in 1945. It would always have been hard to resist the sophisticated human-hacking of surveillance capitalism, but it appeared we were already getting weaker, and we were easier to hack than we would have been otherwise.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again

“The whole planet would become one big interconnected web of cameras. It was all too much to fathom, this writhing, seething mass of digitized human lives—this mocking, sneering leviathan.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“Forget privacy; forget autonomy. You’re going to hand over the keys to your one and only mortal vessel, and you’re expected to pay for the privilege?!”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“In a total surveillance state, complicity is much more likely than ignorance.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“For example, vehicles monitor their drivers’ behavior and share the data with the algorithms of the insurance companies, which raise the premiums they charge “bad drivers” and lower the premiums for “good drivers.” The American scholar Shoshana Zuboff has termed this ever-expanding commercial monitoring system “surveillance capitalism.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“You are no longer being tracked. You are being continued.”
― Anshum ., DEPROGRAMMING THE DIGITAL SELF: Conscious Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Intelligence | A new model for understanding human evolution in the age of artificial awareness