How Long to Read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

How Long Does it Take to Read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 19 minutes to read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. 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 twenty-first 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.

How long is The Age of Surveillance Capitalism?

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff is 658 pages long, and a total of 169,764 words.

This makes it 222% the length of the average book. It also has 207% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 27 minutes to read The Age of Surveillance Capitalism aloud.

What Reading Level is The Age of Surveillance Capitalism?

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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