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Decoder with Nilay Patel

Recode Decode: Shoshana Zuboff

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.33.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Harvard Business School professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. In this episode: Zuboff's background and why she wrote the book; how the economy got digitized; maximizing shareholder value "scraped the life out of so many of our institutions and our businesses"; how surveillance capitalism was invented; why Zuboff uses the term "surveillance capitalism"; how tech companies are like magicians (and not in a good way); and what the hell do we do about this? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:56.0

Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of ReCODE.

0:59.0

You may know me as the surveiler of capitalists, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to ReCODE decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.

1:06.0

Today in the red chair is Shashana Zuboff, a professor and marauder of Harvard Business School,

1:11.0

who has written several books about technology and economics.

1:14.0

Her most recent book is called The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the Fight for a Human Future.

1:19.0

At the New Frontier of Power, that's a lot there.

1:23.0

Shashana, let's go on on.

1:25.0

So let's talk a little bit about your background. So people get a sense.

1:28.0

This is getting a lot of attention in your book. And especially, I've been using the word surveillance quite a lot,

1:32.0

especially about surveillance, economies, surveillance states, and things like that.

1:36.0

A long time issue in human history, but now it's never more important than ever.

1:40.0

So why don't we talk a little bit about how you got to writing this particular book and some things you've done in the past.

1:46.0

So I'd love to hear a little bit of your background.

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