The present nations of the world
In the excerpt this Howard Beale is told by a broadcaster in a minute long tirade that he is old-fashioned. He still thinks in terms of nations and peoples, but there are no nations and peoples left. Russians, no Arabs, no third worlds. There is only one big system of systems. One big dollar domain. “You are still talking about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and A T & T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. nations of the world nowadays. "
In 2019, you can complete this with Google, Amazon and Facebook.
Surveillance Capitalism: An anti-democratic shadow,
the vacuum cleaner that secretly sends a floor plan, the people you share your life with, the secrets your children share with their dolls, your Sleeping habits, your hesitation when you look at sweaters in a store. Companies poach your private experiences in search of data. It's time to fight back.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Silicon Valley
Google and Facebook have become “antithetical for democracy,” says writer Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Silicon Valley has affected our autonomy, says Zuboff: “They can grasp and shift and adjust our behavior in ways we don't know.” Starting with the development of targeted online advertising by Google, the most successful companies in the world are powered by “surveillance capitalism” - a term popularized by the guest in the latest episode of Recode Decode, Shoshana Zuboff. “All economic imperatives that determine supervisory capitalism are focused on, how can we get better and better forecasting products?” Zuboff told Kara Swisher of Recode: “How do we win the most lucrative predictive products, so that we not only predict the future, but increasingly our predictive products are equivalent to perception.”
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