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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with Shoshana Zuboff and Ros Urwin

Intelligence Squared: Business

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The Importance of Being the Source of Free Raw Material

When were you aware this problem was coming online? And do you think that you were a bit of a Cassandra, seeing this ahead of it happening? I mean, this feels a very welcome message to be saying now because I think it's something people are starting to think about. In the logic of surveillance capitalism, these companies don't really care about us per se. What they care about is that we're doing our lives in ways that are accessible to their extraction processes. So it's more realistic to think of ourselves as the Virgin Wood,. The ocean, the meadow, the mountain that's going to be plundered for its ore.

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