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by filoeleven 2689 days ago
The Intercept has published an interview with the author, and I found it to be compelling enough to immediately start reading the book.

> You’re not technically the product, she explains over the course of several hundred tense pages, because you’re something even more degrading: an input for the real product, predictions about your future sold to the highest bidder so that this future can be altered.

> it’s clear that surveillance capitalists have discovered that the most predictive sources of data are when they come in and intervene in our lives, in our real-time actions, to shape our action in a certain direction that aligns with the kind of outcomes they want to guarantee to their customers.

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/02/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-s...