Slowing down Silicon Valley’s pace is required to understand its social effects

Evidence

What is crucial now is that we identify this new form of capitalism on its own terms and in its own words. This pursuit necessarily returns us to Silicon Valley, where things move so fast that few people know what just happened. It is the habitat for progress “at the speed of dreams,” as one Google engineer vividly describes it. My aim here is to slow down the action in order to enlarge the space for such debate and unmask the tendencies of these new creations as they amplify inequality, intensify social hierarchy, exacerbate exclusion, usurp rights, and strip personal life of whatever it is that makes it personal for you or for me. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 194

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Silicon Valley’s ascendant tribe is a global network, not a regional elite — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 168; Devaluing present action blocks social progress; Slow incremental corporatist reform can transform social structure without violent shocks

Broader Connections

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