The Economist -
17 Jan 2019 17:52

AS A CHILD, Shoshana Zuboff accompanied her grandfather as he walked through his factory, greeting workers. He was an inventor and had made his fortune creating a mechanism to release drinks from vending machines. It was a blissful time, both for her and for American business, she recalls. In the 1950s and 60s, "business had integrity. Those companies barely exist any more." That sense of loss clearly lies behind Ms Zuboff's latest book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism". For the work of a pr...
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