Smart-home device spending is exploding alongside surveillance capability

Evidence

Today our homes are in surveillance capitalism’s crosshairs, as competitors chased a 14.7 billion market for smart-home devices in 2017, up from 6.8 billion just a year earlier and expected to reach more than $101 billion by 2021. … Even the baby’s nursery is reconceived as a source of fresh behavioral surplus. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 749

Categorization

• CANDY: The exploding smart-home market figures (6.8B to 101B) and ‘cyborg cockroaches’ are fun elevator-conversation fodder.
• XREF: Connects to the broader point that domestic life increasingly becomes a sensor grid, echoing the nursery-as-behavioral-source theme. — connects to: Home-device privacy policies extract biometric and audio data from entire households — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 741; Smart home devices claim a limitless scope of domestic activities for rendition — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 814; Smart-home IoT devices enroll consumers in surveillance-based markets without knowledge or consent — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 751 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Smart-home IoT devices enroll consumers in surveillance-based markets without knowledge or consent #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 751
• Smart home devices claim a limitless scope of domestic activities for rendition #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 814
• Smart-home devices now create immense knowledge stores with unowned power #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 31