frederick welsh

“Historically, most people were far too poor to let their tastes in entertainment guide where they chose to live, and cities were hardly pleasure zones. Yet as people have become richer, they have increasingly chosen cities based on lifestyle—and the consumer city was born.”
― Edward L. Glaeser, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

“Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

“Google’s mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”—starting with the web—changed all of our lives.”
― 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