Children serve as unwitting scouts of surveillance-capitalist environments

Evidence

Without knowing it, we sent the least formed and most vulnerable among us to scout the hive and settle its wilderness. Now their messages are filtering in from the frontier. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1416

Categorization

• SEED: The idea of children as frontier settlers of the hive is a strong essay hook — ‘the first generation raised inside the instruments’ as an angle on coming-of-age under total monitoring.
• 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 feeds on the social transformations it causes — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1104; Surveillance capitalism exploits the human hunger for recognition — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 797 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism feeds on the social transformations it causes #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1104
• Surveillance capitalism exploits the human hunger for recognition #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 797
• Surveillance capitalism operates through Big Other to engineer behavior rather than souls #expands (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1196
• Surveillance capitalism threatens the inward capacities that sustain social bonds #complicates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1566