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THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

EP.106 - SHOSHANA ZUBOFF

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam Buxton

Comedy

4.821.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Adam talks with American author and academic, Shoshana Zuboff whose book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is about how the big tech companies (Google and Facebook especially) are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to watch how we behave on line and using that data not only to sell us things, but also to make predictions about our future behaviour and even the kind of opinions we 're likely to have. This predictive data is some instances then traded to other companies and organisations seeking to gain a financial or a political advantage by knowing how customers, or voters, might behave.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for additional editing. 

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0:00.0

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0:03.3

Thought I'd bring my guitar along for the walk today was yes I noticed. Can I play you a song I just wrote?

0:10.9

Yeah great.

0:12.9

Sometimes I feel in the worst person in the world selfish and boring and everybody knows it.

0:20.9

I'm sick and tired of living in my head it's like a stinky ear from sewer and I really want to dance it.

0:28.9

Yeah I liked party pom pom. Why don't you do another one like that?

0:32.9

I'm bearing my soul.

0:34.9

Well that's very vulnerable of you but if that's really the way you feel about yourself.

0:39.9

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0:46.9

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0:53.9

Yeah there you go. How many times do I have to tell you they can provide human contact when you're struggling and when you don't feel you can talk to anyone else?

1:01.9

And not even writing a brilliant song and playing it to your dog friend helps.

1:06.9

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1:12.9

Oh yes they do do. At betterhelp.com slash boxed in.

1:17.9

Alright thanks Rosie. Let's get back on the road. Alright Mr Hendrix.

1:36.9

I took my microphone and found some human folk. Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke.

1:45.9

My name is Adam Baxter and I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this. That's the plan.

1:57.9

Hey how you doing podcasts? Adam Baxter here.

2:04.9

Thanks very much indeed for joining me for podcast number 106. How's things?

2:10.9

No more right? It's a bit dreary out here today in the Northfoot countryside. We've had a lot of rain this week.

2:19.9

Mard everywhere. The skies are overcast. It's a little bit javid blowy as you can probably hear.

2:31.9

But oh no the clocks are going back this weekend aren't they?

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