Technical innovators fail to foresee economic exploitation of their omniscience technologies

Evidence

For all their brilliance, these creative scientists appear to be unaware of the restless economic order eager to commandeer their achievements under the flag of surveillance revenues. Paradiso does not reckon with the translation of his paradise of omniscience into the realpolitik of surveillance capitalism as the prediction imperative insists on surplus culled from these new flows and surveillance capitalists fill the front seats of the classroom of digital omniscience. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 651

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the science-innocence-to-capital-cooptation pipeline — how ‘paradise of omniscience’ research becomes surveillance infrastructure, a recurring 20th-century pattern (nuclear, AI safety, etc.).
• XREF: Builds on the earlier ‘prediction imperative’ and ‘behavioral surplus’ definitions from Part I of the book.