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Book cover for The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Digital connection is now a means to others’ commercial ends. At its core, surveillance capitalism is parasitic and self-referential. It revives Karl Marx’s old image of capitalism as a vampire that feeds on labor, but with an unexpected ...more
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