A humane third-modernity digital capitalism remains a genuine future possibility

Evidence

We may yet see the founding of a new synthesis for a third modernity in which a genuine inversion and its social compact are institutionalized as principles of a new rational digital capitalism aligned with a society of individuals and supported by democratic institutions. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 166

Categorization

• SEED: A speculative essay angle: what institutional design would a humane alternative to surveillance capitalism require, drawing on the third-modernity framing.
• XREF: connects to: Democratic institutions can successfully reclaim authority over the digital future from private power. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 185; The future of public space must be invented anew beyond both statism and markets — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2282