The digital era shifts society’s axis from division of labor to division of learning
Evidence
Both Simitis and Schwartz sensed the ascent of the division of learning as the axial principle of a new computational societal milieu, but they could not have anticipated the rise of surveillance capitalism and its consequences. Although the explosive growth of the information continent shifts a crucial axis of the social order from a twentieth-century division of labor to a twenty-first-century division of learning, it is surveillance capitalists who command the field and unilaterally lay claim to a disproportionate share of the decision rights that shape the division of learning in society. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 600
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the key framework term ‘division of learning’ as replacing the twentieth-century division of labor.
- XREF: The division of labor-to-division of learning shift parallels Braudel/Innis on how communication technologies reshape social orders the reader has studied. — connects to: The division of learning in society is the critical axis of social order — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 69; Dominance over society’s division of learning is surveillance capitalism’s new axial principle — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 566; Knowledge production now structures social order as labor once did — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 582 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- The division of learning in society is the critical axis of social order
#corroborates(0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 69 - Information now functions as society’s organizing principle, replacing labor
#corroborates(0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 583 - Knowledge production now structures social order as labor once did
#corroborates(0.92) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 582 - Dominance over society’s division of learning is surveillance capitalism’s new axial principle
#expands(0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 566