While industrial capitalism exploited and controlled nature with devastating consequences, surveillance capitalism exploits and controls human nature with a totalitarian order as the endpoint of the development. I look forward to meeting many more of you on the road ahead.The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is a 2019 non-fiction book by Shoshana Zuboff which looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation that she calls ' surveillance capitalism'. We need the creativity and courage to revitalize our frameworks of human rights, laws, and regulations for a new epoch. If we are to bend the arc of the digital back toward the light, we need public education, democratic mobilization, and political leadership. The stage is set for the big work of 2021 and the decade ahead. “Let there be a digital future,” we say, “but let it be a human future first.” I want to thank my readers and others who have engaged with my podcasts, articles, interviews, radio shows, lecture events, films, videos, and tweets! We are a growing vanguard of young and old who share a sense of righteous indignation and a demand for action. In the gathering storm of worldwide outrage toward illegitimate tech power many people are finding their way to my book.

It was published in Germany in October 2018 and in the US on January 15, 2019. From 2011 through 2018 I wrote a comprehensive book on this subject: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. We deserve a digital future that amplifies human rights, individual sovereignty, and other requirements of a free and flourishing democracy. There is a lot of work to be done if we are to build new bridges to a digital future that we can all call home.

The digital future has been hijacked by this rogue capitalism that now owns and operates the internet. I have dedicated the last twelve years to observing and analyzing the quiet emergence of a fundamentally anti-democratic new economic logic that I call surveillance capitalism.

The age of surveillance capitalism