Surveillance capitalism, like mass production, originated as an American invention that became global.

Evidence

It is also the case that surveillance capitalism was invented in the United States: in Silicon Valley and at Google. This makes it an American invention, which, like mass production, became a global reality. For this reason, much of this text focuses on developments in the US, although the consequences of these developments belong to the world. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 81

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Zuboff’s own framing elsewhere and connects to her forerunner analysis of managerial capitalism and mass production as earlier American-born global logics.