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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff, New York: Public Affairs, 2019. 691 pp. $38
In 2013, Thomas Piketty published Capital in the Twenty-First Century followed seven years later by Capital and Ideology. These books on economic inequality raise the hackles of the anti-socialists who fear government ownership and largesse even more than a loss of personal freedom, which is precisely what is guaranteed by Shoshana Zuboff's surveillance capitalism. It does not really matter, does it? as long as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft continue to earn enormous sums of money, while...