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Google's business (bid-net) model has changed. It began as a consumer search engine that was successful enough to monopolize a nearly global market. Now, however, instead of we searching Google, "Google searches us...."

So explains Harvard Business School Social Psychologist Prof. Shoshana Zuboff in a series of her charismatic lectures, Public Interest talks with enlightening and never condescending Q&A's and the many varieties of Town Hall Meetings and Public Forums she has spanned the globe offering since approximately 5-6 years ago when her New Market Paradigm and book entitled The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power became available.

Like her earlier books titled In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and an even younger oracular publishing effort: The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and her collaborative Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin along with a tri-fecta seminar at Rutgers offered as an open invitation to the appropriately curious public via this online special event announcement held live via Zoom through Rutgers U. and to the public locked down during Pandemic (and Protest....):

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkFuturology/comments/ix91kc/surveillance_in_an_era_of_pandemic_and_protest/

Surveillance in an Era of Pandemic and Protest

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"As this summer of pandemic and racial justice protests draws to a close, Naomi Klein will host a landmark conversation between Shoshana Zuboff, author of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," and Simone Browne (U. of Texas at Austin), author of "Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness." The three authors will discuss how both governments and tech giants are using our moment of overlapping crises to push through discredited surveillance technologies that threaten privacy, democracy, and any hope of equality."

"Early in the pandemic, Klein wrote that these forces have aligned to “advance a vision of a future in which our every move, our every word, our every relationship is trackable, traceable, and data-mineable.” For the privileged, “almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone.”

But, Zuboff warns, “We’re not necessarily locked into this deterministic narrative that too many pundits are hawking and the tech companies are salivating over — that post-Covid-19, we’re going to have comprehensive biosurveillance of all of society. ... People are worried. People are asking questions.”

"Racial justice movements are also winning major victories against surveillance technologies like facial recognition. And as Browne reminds us, “surveillance is nothing new to Black folks.” In "Dark Matters," Browne traces modern surveillance practices back to the policing of Black lives under slavery, comparing the branding of slaves to present-day methods of tracking, surveilling, and commodifying people."

"In this live conversation, Klein, Zuboff, and Browne will unpack the dangers of surveillance capitalism — and how we can rise to this crisis and create a fair and equitable future. " While checking in with the Big Tech (Big Bros)

In partnership with Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff

I'd very much recommend you search U. of Tube and sit in on her posted classes and course-work or dynamic dialogues with far better interviewers beyond U.S. Pay2Play broadcast borders. Or, this introductory Public Forum on billionaire Pierre Omidhar's early Public Interest platform and his own toy The Intercept (co-sponsored with the non-profit Public Interest org Common Dreams) where this nifty bit of duet intellectual presentation and interactive Town Hall meeting keeps working for me each time I watch it anew and the more experience I have added using the ever-expanding world of online sourcing:

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/01/surveillance-capitalism-book-shoshana-zuboff-naomi-klein/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/01/watch-naomi-klein-and-shoshana-zuboff-discuss-mounting-dangers-surveillance

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