Adolescence in the hive marks the first generation engineered behaviorally for surveillance capital.

Evidence

If you are over the age of thirty, you know that Klein is not describing your adolescence, or that of your parents, and certainly not that of your grandparents. Adolescence and emerging adulthood in the hive are a human first, meticulously crafted by the science of behavioral engineering; institutionalized in the vast and complex architectures of computer-mediated means of behavior modification; overseen by Big Other; directed toward economies of scale, scope, and action in the capture of behavioral surplus; and funded by the surveillance capital that accrues from unprecedented concentrations of knowledge and power. Our children endeavor to come of age in a hive that is owned and operated by the applied utopianists of surveillance capitalism and is continuously monitored and shaped by the gathering force of instrumentarian power. Is this the life that we want for the most open, pliable, eager, self-conscious, and promising members of our society? — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1430

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: adolescence as a manufactured environment rather than a natural stage — what it means for developmental psychology that coming-of-age is now an engineered, monetized setting.
• XREF: connects to: The surveillance horizon extends to children’s toys that harvest underage behavioral surplus — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 827; Surveillance capitalism continuously intensifies the means of behavioral modification — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 37; Adolescent development now occurs inside a commercially engineered behavior-modification regime — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1482 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Adolescent development now occurs inside a commercially engineered behavior-modification regime #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1482
• Total surveillance environments could control human development from birth #expands (0.80) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 270
• Surveillance capitalism continuously intensifies the means of behavioral modification #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 37