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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

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“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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“Often those with less have more.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

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“The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

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“Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry.”
― Adam McKay, The Big Short: A Screenplay

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“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

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