A single lightning fire erased a scholar’s entire career archive in hours

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When a lightning fire destroyed our home in 2009, thousands of books along with every trace of my scholarly career and new work in progress vanished in a few hours. I thought that I would never write again, but my brilliant and beloved husband, Jim Maxmin, insisted that time would bring rebirth. It did. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1662