frederick welsh

“today our societies are threatened as the division of learning drifts into pathology and injustice at the hands of the unprecedented asymmetries of knowledge and power that surveillance capitalism has achieved.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“The division of learning is to us, members of the second modernity, what the division of labor was to our grandparents and great-grandparents, pioneers of the first modernity.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“In 2000 a group of computer scientists and engineers at Georgia Tech collaborated on a project called the “Aware Home.”4 It was meant to be a “living laboratory” for the study of “ubiquitous computing.” They imagined a “human-home symbiosis” in which many animate and inanimate processes would be captured by an elaborate network of “context aware sensors” embedded in the house and by wearable computers worn by the home’s occupants. The design called for an “automated wireless collaboration” between the platform that hosted personal information from the occupants’ wearables and a second one that hosted the environmental information from the sensors.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“First Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—his new regular army rank dated to July 17—was”
― Thom Hatch, Glorious War: The Civil War Adventures of George Armstrong Custer