The Evolution of Surveillance Capitalism

Sally Kohn: Surveillance capitalism varies in many ways from the history of market capitalism, but there's one key way in which it emulates a familiar historical pattern. She says that what surveillance capitalism claims is private human experience to be brought inside the marketplace and combined with advanced computational capabilities. Out of this come prediction products that are computations that predict what we will do now soon and later," she says. "This is a marketplace that trades in behavioral futures"