Information civilization built on surveillance capitalism threatens to cost us our humanity.

Evidence

If we are to rediscover our sense of astonishment, then let it be here: if industrial civilization flourished at the expense of nature and now threatens to cost us the Earth, an information civilization shaped by surveillance capitalism will thrive at the expense of human nature and threatens to cost us our humanity. Polanyi’s prophecy requires us to ask if we may yet avert this fate with our own synthetic declarations. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1102

Categorization

• SEED: The symmetrical claim — industrial capital eats nature, surveillance capital eats human nature — is a strong framer for an essay on what each regime’s ‘externality’ reveals.
• XREF: Directly uses Polanyi’s double-movement prophecy; connects to reader’s earlier notes on embeddedness and the protective counter-movement. — connects to: Information civilization under surveillance capitalism may deplete human nature as industry depleted nature — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 47; Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650; Surveillance capitalism’s dangers exceed privacy and monopoly concerns — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 546 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Information civilization under surveillance capitalism may deplete human nature as industry depleted nature #corroborates (0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 47
• Surveillance capitalism aims to dominate human nature rather than external nature. #corroborates (0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1633
• Industrial capitalism damaged nature where surveillance capitalism damages human nature. #corroborates (0.93) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1099
• Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience #expands (0.92) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650
• Surveillance capitalism aims to author people rather than destroy them #qualifies (0.88) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1062
• Surveillance capitalism’s dangers exceed privacy and monopoly concerns #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 546
• Surveillance capitalism threatens the inward capacities that sustain social bonds #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1566
• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45