Surveillance capital now endangers the elemental right to the future tense

Evidence

I suggest that we now face the moment in history when the elemental right to the future tense is endangered by a panvasive digital architecture of behavior modification owned and operated by surveillance capital, necessitated by its economic imperatives, and driven by its laws of motion, all for the sake of its guaranteed outcomes. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1044

Categorization

  • XREF: Culminates the book’s core thesis versus behavior modification and guaranteed outcomes introduced in earlier chapters. — connects to: Surveillance capitalism threatens novel rights like the right to the future tense — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 167; The right to the future tense frames collective self-determination against surveillance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1698; Fictitious capital promises security and fulfillment it structurally cannot deliver — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 582

Broader Connections