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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- ナレーター: Nicol Zanzarella
- 再生時間: 24 時間 16 分
- カテゴリー: 政治学・社会科学, 社会科学
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- 著者: Cathy O'Neil
- ナレーター: Cathy O'Neil
- 再生時間: 6 時間 23 分
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance - are being made not by humans but by mathematical models. In theory this should lead to greater fairness. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black-box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society.
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Capital and Ideology
- 著者: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- ナレーター: Rick Adamson
- 再生時間: 48 時間 57 分
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Thomas Piketty’s best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 著者: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- ナレーター: Simon Slater
- 再生時間: 7 時間 59 分
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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A compass to cruise the uncertain world
- 投稿者: "1az" 日付: 2020/08/21
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 11 時間 41 分
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/01/19
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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AI Superpowers
- China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- 著者: Kai-Fu Lee
- ナレーター: Mikael Naramore
- 再生時間: 9 時間 28 分
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In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
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- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2019/05/10
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- 著者: Cathy O'Neil
- ナレーター: Cathy O'Neil
- 再生時間: 6 時間 23 分
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance - are being made not by humans but by mathematical models. In theory this should lead to greater fairness. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. Tracing the arc of a person's life, O'Neil exposes the black-box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society.
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Capital and Ideology
- 著者: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translator
- ナレーター: Rick Adamson
- 再生時間: 48 時間 57 分
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Thomas Piketty’s best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.
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Factfulness
- Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- 著者: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
- ナレーター: Simon Slater
- 再生時間: 7 時間 59 分
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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A compass to cruise the uncertain world
- 投稿者: "1az" 日付: 2020/08/21
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 11 時間 41 分
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/01/19
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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AI Superpowers
- China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
- 著者: Kai-Fu Lee
- ナレーター: Mikael Naramore
- 再生時間: 9 時間 28 分
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In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technological power.
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- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2019/05/10
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 著者: Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
- ナレーター: L. J. Ganser
- 再生時間: 24 時間 58 分
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Radical Markets
- Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
- 著者: Eric A. Posner, E. Glen Weyl
- ナレーター: James Conlan
- 再生時間: 9 時間 7 分
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Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking - and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both for and against - on its head. The book reveals bold new ways to organize markets for the good of everyone.
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 17 分
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Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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History and future of human
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2019/03/29
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The Underground Railroad
- 著者: Colson Whitehead
- ナレーター: Bahni Turpin
- 再生時間: 10 時間 43 分
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.
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Think Again
- The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
- 著者: Adam Grant
- ナレーター: Adam Grant
- 再生時間: 6 時間 40 分
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Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds - and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the best-selling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners.
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The Ministry for the Future
- A Novel
- 著者: Kim Stanley Robinson
- ナレーター: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, 、その他
- 再生時間: 20 時間 41 分
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The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
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Post Corona
- From Crisis to Opportunity
- 著者: Scott Galloway
- ナレーター: Scott Galloway
- 再生時間: 5 時間 39 分
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The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mask-wearers and the mask-haters. Some businesses, like Amazon and video conference software maker Zoom, woke up to find themselves crushed under an avalanche of consumer demand. Others, like the restaurant, travel, hospitality and live entertainment industries, scrambled to not become instantly obsolete. But the pandemic has not been a change agent so much as an accelerant of trends that were already well underway.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 著者: Daniel Kahneman
- ナレーター: Patrick Egan
- 再生時間: 20 時間 2 分
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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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- 投稿者: Shawn Afshar 日付: 2018/11/18
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Don't Be Evil
- The Case Against Big Tech
- 著者: Rana Foroohar
- ナレーター: Rachel Fulginiti
- 再生時間: 11 時間 58 分
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An award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies, our economies and ourselves. Today Google and Facebook receive 90 percent of the world's news ad spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1 percent of cell phones globally. And 80 percent of corporate wealth is now held by 10 percent of companies - not the GEs and Toyotas of this world but the digital titans. How did we get here? How did the tech industry get to dominate our world so completely?
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The New Great Depression
- Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World
- 著者: James Rickards
- ナレーター: James Rickards
- 再生時間: 5 時間 27 分
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In The New Great Depression, James Rickards, New York Times best-selling author of Aftermath, pulls back the curtain to reveal the true risks to our financial system and what savvy investors can do to survive - even prosper - during a time of unrivaled turbulence. Drawing on historical case studies, monetary theory, and behind-the-scenes access to the halls of power, Rickards shines a clarifying light on the events taking place, so investors understand what's really happening and what they can do about it.
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- 著者: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- ナレーター: Stephen Graybill
- 再生時間: 23 時間 44 分
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By the authors of the international best seller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.
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"I will make a guarantee: Assuming we survive to tell the tale, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has a high probability of joining the likes Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Max Weber's Economy and Society as defining social-economics texts of modern times. It is not a 'quick read'; it is to be savored and re-read and discussed with colleagues and friends. No zippy one-liners from me, except to almost literally beg you to read/ingest this book." (Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence)
"My mind is blown on every page by the depth of Shoshana's research, the breadth of her knowledge, the rigor of her intellect, and finally by the power of her arguments. I'm not sure we can end the age of surveillance capitalism without her help, and that's why I believe this is the most important book of our time." (Doc Searls, author of The Intention Economy, editor in chief, Linux Journal)
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The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism", and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the 21st century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the 20th. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets", where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification". The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to 21st-century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit - at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future - if we let it.
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- Brad
- 2019/02/08
A MUST, NOT TO BE MISSED
Something wicked indeed has come this way, and is upon us now. Dubbed early on "The Information Age"; the appellation is woefully insufficient. For it is glaringly clear that we are well into the transition from occupying nation states (in which our social contracts as governed populations had long been between civil governments -- varied in kind, but with the one common feature of thriving entirely on human agency) to occupying corporate states. That is, it is not too soon to say we no longer populate nations but vast ruling corporations.
The singular, most curious and even frightening thing to consider is that to the degree we arrived at this predicament, we did so willingly. We did so under no other pressure than our own acquiescence. We did so not from ignorance of what was happening -- for this book is proof of that -- but from, if anything, a mass gaslighting. Thus, with all the facts before us, we chose the road called convenience rather than the road called liberty; and that, as the poet once wrote, made all the difference.
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- Steve
- 2019/04/28
One of the most important books of the decade
I don't think it's hyperbole to say that this is one of the most important books in recent years. It lays out the case for a brand new type of capitalism that we are simply not equipped to grasp the short term, and long term, consequences of, and that affects us all in profound ways. And that's why I gave it 5 stars. However, that recommendation comes with a huge caveat. The author seems to take joy in writing in a style that seems more apt for a doctoral thesis in psychology. A book written by an Ivy League professor for other Ivy League professors. This verbiage is wholly unnecessary and borders on obnoxious.
Take for example a sentence like this: "This mental and emotional milieu appears to produce a virus of insecurity and anxiety that drives a young person deeper into this closed loop of escalating compulsion as he or she chases relief in longed-for signals of valorization."
Or how about this sentence: "It is a form of observation without witness that yields the obverse of an intimate violent political religion and bears an utterly different signature of havoc: the remote and abstracted contempt of impenetrably complex systems and the interests that author them, carrying individuals on a fast-moving current to the fulfillment of others’ ends."
Make no mistake. This book is remarkably researched and thorough. The points it makes are exceedingly compelling and it contains information that everyone in this age needs to know. However, this book needs a complete re-write by someone more capable of communicating with a more broad audience. One shouldn't have to fight thought the unnecessarily complex sentence structures and pedantic language in order to digest the amazingly necessary message this book tells.
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- pk
- 2019/04/04
The intersection of ethics, capitalism, and tech
First, I love to read about ethics issues in technology; so, it may not be immediately apparent that one would be getting a good dose within this title. I was enamored from the beginning of how colorful this author was in producing a tangible and practical view of surveillance capitalism. This is a concept I've heard very little about outside of the security sector. To have the correlation made with other sociological concepts that I hadn't really thought about stretched me! This book was fantastic at opening up and investigating the implications of surveillance with the majority of consumers not truly comprehending and understanding the cost.
Now, I would be remiss if I didn't also mention that the author goes on, repeatedly and at length, to address the same points multiple times. It was really hard to extract the take-away points at the mid-point of this book because of how often the author hits the same points, using the same language, and the same frustration toward the abuses. If you are not a reader that likes to "work" to obtain the gold nuggets of wisdom, then this is not the book for you. At times, I found myself cursing in traffic because the author repeats herself too much. I have the impression that this author created this book intending that each chapter should be able to stand on it's own. The unifying themes are very evident; so, repeatedly hitting the drum of disdain became painful after the first 8hrs. The editor should have reigned it in!
The last point I should make is that there are probably more than 30 important topics for consideration in this book. All of them are worthy of your clock cycles to consider, understand, and discuss with your friends and family. When coupled with some of the other topics I like to read, such as artificial intelligence, I am at no shortage of discussion points to appreciate with a mint julep, a cigar, and a friend on the porch for at least 2 summers....but, I'll do it without my phone, or sensors of any type, nearby.
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- Todd B
- 2019/07/14
Book Editors failed to trim the word count
A great topic, with a author that can explain it well ....making a convincing argument for regulation of corporate and goverment use of citizens personal data. However, the book editors were asleep at the wheel esecially in the second half of the book where the editors must have just thrown in the towel and moved on to the next book ..... I can not imagine how excesssively wordy this book was before the final edit?? ..... this is a 6 hour story .... that wanders aimlessely between excess and irrelevant details while trying to make a very concise point.
It reads like the book was written by an author who has spent a career in academia and government, written like she felt that she was preaching from a pulpit of what she believes will be the legistlative bible on consumer data of the modern economy ..... she even invents some of her own proprietary phrases ....with little regard for reader's time, not many business readers will finish this 24 hour sermon ..... 18 hours of dramatic soap box preaching and excess detail around its 6 hours of unbiased actionable information.
By the end of book you will want to strangle Shoshana each time you hear the narrator drone on with:
1. ubiquitous
2. modernity
3. instrumentarian
4. conceptual
5. who decides-who decides
6. unprecendented
7. dispossession
8. personal autonomy
9. inalienable right to the future tense
10. survelliance capitalists
11. neoliberal
12. collectivist orientation
13. facsist
14. any and all
15. human freedom
16. hierarchical complexities
17. radical indifference
18 organism among organisms
19. radical indifference
20. data surplus
21. existential
22. equivalance without equality
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- Eric
- 2019/04/18
This should be required reading
While this book seems almost excessively long, I feel the information is soo important for the times we live in. The way data is being collected and sold with no one held accountable is disheartening to say the least. If we do nothing to stop it we are basically giving up our freedom to choose and even our rights as we become a sum of data collected defining who we are to the powers that be. They can then use the data to manipulate our behavior or deny certain privileges. I don't like living in fear but this book can cause paranoia knowing the current truth. I hope enough people learn this information and we can turn technology into a positive tool instead of a tool used to spy and manipulate.
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- Erik Kobayashi-solomon
- 2019/04/20
Erudite and important
I had originally expected much more mechanical account of the way in which Google and Facebook, and later Microsoft, learned to use data to craft advertising messages. Instead, the book turned out to be a thoughtful and philosophical work that reminded me in ambition to Thomas Pikkety's work and in content to the writing of Hannah Arendt. This is an important work that I desperately hope will catch the attention of policy makers and prompt an international framework of privacy and personal rights laws.
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- Amy B.
- 2019/04/22
Good information - way too verbose
This book has so much good information, but it really needs a good editor. There was way too much repetition and the episodic flowery prose was distracting. This book is good, but it needs to be shorter and less of a burden to listen to.
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- spores
- 2019/07/13
Very important topic but poorly constructed
This book discusses an incredibly important but often under-discussed topic. However, the importance of the topic and the message itself gets lost by the seeming insecurity of the writer. This book seems to be intently written to make the author sound overly intelligent and erudite. Instead of using common language and prose the author drones on with long-winded sentences and obscure phrases that are highly unnecessary. I would love to see this book rewritten by someone who is interested in conveying a reasonable message and not interested in overcompensating...
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- Al
- 2019/05/28
Horrendously Rhetorical
The basic ideas in this are interesting, but the author writes with such thick rhetoric from a specific ideological position that she makes those ideas unnecessarily overcomplicated. It comes across as an author writing more for herself and glorification of her own intellectualism than as someone attempting to communicate an idea. Terrible.
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- Jeremy
- 2019/06/05
The most important book of our era
Am I qualified to say this is the most important book of our era? No. However, I feel it may be, and I am not alone. Reading this book reshaped my world through a meticulously researched and expertly crafted deconstruction of our present. I was expecting a good read about the state of technology, and this book certainly delivered on that end, but I also got a pill that sucked me out of the matrix, or in this case, the hive. My world is transformed from read this text, and I’ve become an unbearable nag to everyone around me, imploring them to read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and join me outside of the hive. It’s cold and scary out here, but there’s no turning back.
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- Apple Smith
- 2019/04/26
Had so badly wanted to like it
My being fresh from lapping up Yuval Noah Harari’s gripping trilogy (read by the engaging Derek Perkins), I was keen to dig deeper into similar writings on the seeming inevitability of capitalism and its effect on modern society.
Following the recommendations of friends, the London Review of Books, and Audible itself, I searched for Zuboff’s book. The audio sample sounded good and I was confident of a rewarding purchase.
Regrettably the writing is much heavier going than the sample suggests (peppered with hifalutin terms & unhelpfully pretentious metaphors) and, each time I try to pick it up again, Zanzarella’s vocal performance leaves me *exhausted* after just ten minutes. Finishing it has been a labour of love: the overall presentation feels oppressively self-conscious, thanks to a combination of overly earnest Writing with overly earnest Reading.
Meticulously researched & timed, but sadly scuppered by its poor delivery as compared with that of similar productions like Harari-Perkins & Piketty-Ganser, or some of my favourite readers (Joanna David, Ruth Golding, etc).
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- Mr E.
- 2019/10/25
Great, important and meticulously crafted book.
I nearly didn’t read/listen to this because reviews suggested it was too long, poorly narrated and overly wordy and dense..... However I am glad that I ignored the negative reviews which I believe are totally unfounded (apart from the narration - but see final paragraph below re this). It is an extraordinary work and v timely.
From amid the fog of a new and sinisterly intangible assault on human values Zuboff calls out the villains and their activities and challenges us to wake up to what is at stake. I think this is a must read and a call to action for anyone who cares about the freedom of the individual and the fundamental sanctity of lived experience uncollated by ‘big other’.
One small but significant detail ..... I listened to it on 2x speed which simultaneously halved the listening time and solved the excessively ponderous narration. Normally I do 1.75x but in this case 2x was perfect. (Hence 3 stars for performance).
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- Stefan
- 2019/10/06
Good, but not great for audiobook
while an interesting book, it doesn't do well as an audiobook. it's much too heavy to read, and doesn't easily carry between listening sessions.
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- Fipzee
- 2020/03/28
Misses the point by being overly one sided
A book that should be important, with important points and information but one whose generalisations and failure to properly examine the counter arguments weakened the strength of the argument ultimately leaving me frustrated. That’s a pity because I have concerns about data privacy and misuse.
Some examples of issues with the book:
- The author criticises the shift from privacy to security but doesn’t assess the merits of that choice or necessity of that path
- In criticising share structures that in the end allow founders to simply maximise return while staying in control but fails to acknowledge shareholders don’t simply have to trust the likes of Zuckerberg. They can invest elsewhere. Different share classes are not new.
- In the case of Google the author pretty much acknowledges they stumbled across a way to avoid going out of business. If the central point of this book is that companies are using our own behaviour to manipulate us then shouldn’t the tobacco, gambling and pizza delivery businesses all be shut down tomorrow? Businesses will always service a need and good government will ensure regulation is in place to ensure that the ability and manner of that delivery is in the interests of society. A challenge with surveillance capitalism is that a lot of it works really well. Most of us wish to avoid ads that aren’t relevant and welcome those that draw our attention to something we really want/need (and sometimes didn’t know)
- Dismisses claims of economic benefits by Google as wishful thinking without investigation.
- Points out the degree of lobbying and resistance to comply with authorities without contextualising that with historical behaviour of other firms that could strengthen the arguments e.g. tobacco companies.
- Labelling SaaS as surveillance as a service. In my experience with business related software this is simply untrue. Does it mean there are not bad players out there? No, but making these generalisations and not backing them up weakens the author’s credibility and argument.
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- Andrew
- 2019/06/30
Fascinating and terrifying, but robotic performance and very long.
Very thorough, and thought provoking, it changed my view of how and why we use the internet. It uses complex language at times, I felt I couldn’t be distracted while listening to it. Performance is very dry.
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- Daniel
- 2020/12/29
Flipping awful
Took this on a recommendation and I must say I am sorely disappointed. Didn’t get far but that was enough. Why use five words when you can use five pages. Why use simple straight forward language when you can overly complicate things? This is the general tone of the book. I realise that I’m the unusual one as most people love it judging by the reviews.
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- Krzysztof W.
- 2020/08/18
very infornarive and comprehensive however sometie
very comrehensive however sometimes too repetitive and lenghtly so you get similar statements reappearing too many times imho
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- J. Flood
- 2020/01/19
Mixed bag
Some great ideas and useful information but the book is twice as long as it has to be. Philosophical excuses are not rewarding.
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- Stu
- 2019/09/30
Interesting but inaccessible
A highly regarded text by a highly regarded author. Key insights are in here, but it's submerged in a dense, self-indulgent academic style that's quite hard to get through. The narration was a 'nails down a blackboard' experience for me. Two attempts to get into this book and I gave up.
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- ayman
- 2019/05/14
Good points but sooooo long book
I understand the point the author wants to make and the effort made but the book could be summarized and shorten to half
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- 匿名
- 2021/01/27
Challenging for the wrong reasons
At over 24 hours long, this is a meandering, rather unfocused journey. One I couldn't complete. Unfortunately this book is overly self-reflexive and self-indulgent, contains a high degree of subjectivity without much evidence or expounding to back it up. Trying hard to craft a polemic, the author gets lost in exposition and 'thesis creep'. It could easily be one third of its length. For me, the pseudo-academic style overshadows any salience.
Unfortunately the narration doesn't help. Any mildly technical term is pronounced with the kind of inflection and over-emphasis that denotes the narrator is not familiar with the issues they are talking about.
Not what I was expecting. Possibly enlightening for less technically aware listeners.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021/02/22
Eye opening and shocking.
Every person who wants to retain their free will should take heed of this book.
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- David
- 2021/01/16
Best book of the year
The book explained something I didn't really understand before. It brings clarity to life. Well written, well read.
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- 匿名
- 2021/01/10
The more you know
A thoroughly researched and well presented audio book that offers insight into practices affecting most people on a daily basis. This book seeks to ask questions of companies and practices which are such an awesome part of the digital life of it's users, reminding people these practices are new and very different to how life has been lived in the past. It does take some time to work through and I found I did have to be I the mood to listen. I appreciate and commend the author Shoshana Zuboff's commitment to creating the work which attempts to educate listeners/readers of their part in the practice which is surveillance capitalism.
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- 匿名
- 2020/11/05
Eye opening
Absolutely brilliant. Both terrifying and inspiring. Illuminates clearly how social media companies manipulate us in their relentless pursuit of profit.
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- Stephen Khalek
- 2020/10/25
Futurists meet realists
An informative perspective of the prevelance of Big Other and our ability to adapt as a society to the challenger to the traditional capitalistic and democratic forms
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- Alessio
- 2020/07/30
Ambitious, overwhelming, and ever more essential
Zuboff tackles some of the biggest questions of our time: “Who knows? Who decides? Who decides who decides?”
This book is an ambitious and essential examination of a new form of power, surveillance capitalism, and its impact on the individual and society. Deeply introspective, it examines the virtuous and vicious cycle of data gathering, processing, and implementation in the mass influence of behaviour.
The book is dense, and sometimes overwhelming. It presents substantive philosophical, subjective, political and sociological perspectives on the impact of hyper scale tech companies on the world. It is not a cost/benefit analysis of these entities, but rather a deep examination of their nature and impact.
For anyone struggling to come to terms with the bigger meaning of social media, targeted advertising, big data, power and democracy and their interlink, this is a thoughtful and compelling piece to explore. For everyone else, it’s essential reading.
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- 匿名
- 2020/04/20
Really hard listening
This book was a lost opportunity to get an important message communicated effectively. Written by an academic it was heavy on obtuse terminology. Not a book for anyone wanting surveillance capital reported in layman’s terms. Invest your time wisely and do some research before purchasing this book.
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- Petra Bueskens
- 2020/02/21
Brilliant
Sociological analysis of this depth and magnitude is unheard of for precisely the reasons Zuboff lays out: surveillance capitalism captures our attention and robs us of the privacy necessary for deep contemplation and reflection. With the confluence of surveillance and neoliberalism, very few academics have the time (or attention span) for work of this calibre or depth. It’s is a profound, multi-levelled analysis of the largely invisible social and economic structure of digital capitalism.
The stand out finding that human life has become a new frontier of raw material to be mined and sold, and our actions — from the individual through to the societal — are being captured, recorded, nudged, herded, conditioned and sold as “behavioural surplus” is brilliant, comprehensive and deeply disturbing.
This book is not simply an illumination of the status quo but a call to arms. It’s impossible to not be moved by it. We should all be grateful for this book. It is a feat of the very “will to will” Zuboff so clearly shows to be under threat.
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- Geoffrey R. Folland
- 2020/02/18
Clear & compelling
Zuboff does a great job of recounting the history that led to the rise of Google & Facebook, etc. she clearly identifies the underlying issues & threats related to this new form of power using simple examples that illustrate the point. Her use of newly coined (or self coined) terms makes it important to pay attention to their early definition, but new experiences demand new terms. I was somewhat surprised by her pervasive use of theological terms (eg God-view, free will, sanctuary, utopia etc.) but realised that she does not have a theological view in mind. In fact, I would say that this is the weakness in her work - she has an understanding of human nature that fails to grasp the richness & power of Christian anthropology (biblical view of personhood). Her argument would be enriched by comparing her concepts of, for example, policy & human contract with the biblical tension between law & grace. Still, this excellent book sounds a clear warning and provides enough insight to suggest a clear way forward in the resistance against unrestrained forces of power.