Surveillance capitalism operates quietly through ambient technology that bypasses our awareness

Evidence

Big Other finally enables the universal technology of behavior that, as Skinner, Stuart MacKay, Mark Weiser, and Joe Paradiso each insisted, accomplishes its aims quietly and persistently, using methods that intentionally bypass our awareness, disappearing into the background of all things. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1200

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘disappearing into the background’ claim connects to ambient/ubiquitous computing theories of Weiser and to earlier work on invisible infrastructure in the tree-grafting essay. — connects to: Surveillance capitalism requires ubiquitous computing but not the reverse — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 632; Benign convenience helped surveillance capitalism escape political debate — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 276; The digital panopticon fails to register as surveillance because its subjects feel free — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 91 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Benign convenience helped surveillance capitalism escape political debate #corroborates (0.78) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 276