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Technology · 11 min

The Algorithmic Gaze: Autonomy in the Age of Prediction

By Shoshana Zuboff

This episode dissects Shoshana Zuboff's 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,' revealing how our digital lives are systematically harvested to predict and influence behavior, challenging the very notion of human autonomy in a new economic order.

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“This episode dissects Shoshana Zuboff's 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,' revealing how our digital lives are systematically harvested to predict and influence behavior, challenging the very notion of human autonomy in a new economic order.”

— Shoshana Zuboff, The Algorithmic Gaze: Autonomy in the Age of Prediction

What it is about

data, privacy, capitalism

Who it is for

For anyone seeking to understand the invisible architecture of power behind their screens, this offers the essential vocabulary and mental models to recognize and resist the new logic of surveillance capitalism.

The author

Harvard Business School professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff delivers a landmark work of synthesis, drawing on years of deep research to name the unprecedented economic forces that seek to predict and modify human behavior for profit.

About the author

Shoshana Zuboff

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