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"I have spent exactly 42 years studying the rise of the digital as an
economic force driving our transformation into an information
civilization. Over the last two decades, I’ve observed the consequences
of this surprising political-economic fraternity as those young
companies morphed into surveillance empires powered by global
architectures of behavioral monitoring, analysis, targeting and
prediction that I have called surveillance capitalism. On the strength
of their surveillance capabilities and for the sake of their
surveillance profits, the new empires engineered a fundamentally
anti-democratic epistemic coup marked by unprecedented concentrations of
knowledge about us and the unaccountable power that accrues to such
knowledge."
Via Dave Farber.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
