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Surveillance Capitalism And Anti-Capitalism

In the last few years, the computer scientists and entrepreneurs who fuel Silicon Valley have gone through a bewildering series of transformations.
Once upon a time they were ostracised nerds.
Then they were the lovable geeks of the Big Bang Theory TV show, and for a short while they were superheroes.
(In case you’re wondering, geeks wonder what sex in zero gravity is like; nerds wonder what sex is like.)
Then it all went wrong, and now they are the tech bros; the anti-heroes in the dystopian saga of society’s descent into algorithmic rule by Big Brother, soon to be followed by extermination by Terminators.
Techlash is in full swing, and Shoshana Zuboff is its latest high priestess. She is professor emerita at Harvard Business School, and author of “Surveillance Capitalism,” a 600-page book on how the tech giants, especially Google and Facebook, have developed a “rogue mutation of capitalism” which threatens our personal autonomy and democracy.