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SUMMARY:Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zub
 off\, Harvard University
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CONTACT:Trust & Technology Initiative team
DESCRIPTION:Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard University) will be speaking in Cambr
 idge on February 4th following the launch of her new book The Age of Surve
 illance Capitalism. Join us in Cambridge University’s Faculty of Law fro
 m 18.30 to 20.30 for what promises to be an essential discussion for anyon
 e interested in the future of our digital societies. This talk is hosted b
 y the Cambridge Trust & Technology Initiative in association with Heffers 
 Bookshop\, and will be followed by a drinks reception.\n\nPlease register 
 your attendance here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shoshana-zuboff-the-a
 ge-of-surveillance-capitalism-tickets-53342326334\n\nSociety is at a turni
 ng point. The heady optimism that accompanied the advent of the Internet i
 s gone\, replaced by a deep unease. Technologies that were meant to libera
 te us have exacerbated social inequalities and stoked explosive political 
 climates across the world. Tech companies gather our information online an
 d sell it to the highest bidder\, whether government or retailer. In this 
 world of surveillance capitalism\, profit depends not only on predicting o
 ur behaviour but modifying it too.\n\nThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism i
 s a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free 
 from democratic oversight. As it explores this new capitalism’s impact o
 n society\, politics\, business\, and technology\, it exposes the fundamen
 tal struggles that will decide both the next chapter of capitalism and the
  meaning of information civilization. Most critically\, it shows how we ca
 n protect ourselves and our communities ensuring we are the masters of the
  digital rather than its slaves.\n\nShoshana Zuboff has been called ‘the
  true prophet of the information age’ by the Financial Times for her gro
 und-breaking book\, In the Age of the Smart Machine. She is the Charles Ed
 ward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School as well as Facult
 y Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law 
 School.\n\nAdvance praise for The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:\n\n“Fr
 om the very first page I was consumed with an overwhelming imperative: eve
 ryone needs to read this book as act of digital self-defence. With tremend
 ous lucidity and moral courage\, Zuboff demonstrates not only how our mind
 s are being mined for data but also how they are being rapidly and radical
 ly changed in the process. The hour is late and much has been lost already
  - but as we learn in these indispensable pages\, there is still hope for 
 emancipation.” - Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything and No 
 Logo\n\n“Assuming we survive to tell the tale\, The Age of Surveillance 
 Capitalism has a high probability of joining the likes of Adam Smith’s T
 he Wealth of Nations and Max Weber’s Economy and Society as defining soc
 ial-economics texts of modern times … It is to be savored and re-read an
 d discussed with colleagues and friends. No zippy one-liners from me\, exc
 ept to almost literally beg you to read this book” - Tom Peters\, author
  of In Search of Excellence\n\n“Shoshana Zuboff has produced the most pr
 ovocative compelling moral framework thus far for understanding the new re
 alities of our digital environment and its anti-democratic threats. From n
 ow on\, all serious writings on the internet and society will have to take
  into account The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” - Joseph Turow\, Robe
 rt Lewis Shayon Chair Professor\, Annenberg School\, University of Pennsyl
 vania\n\n“Zuboff’s expansive\, erudite\, deeply-researched exploration
  of digital futures elucidates the norms and hidden terminal goals of info
 rmation-intensive industries. Zuboff’s book is the information industry
 ’s Silent Spring.” - Chris Hoofnagle\, University of California\, Berk
 eley
LOCATION:Faculty of Law
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