Surveillance Capitalism and Your Big Data

The issue of Surveillance Capitalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism  / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticism) is an issue I’ve been watching and exploring for about a decade (although the concept itself wasn’t named and defined until more recently) and it’s something I’m keen to talk more about because it will effect all of us and generations to come.

The term Surveillance Capitalism was coined by Shoshana Zuboff (see first video) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff).

Zuboff has defined what have been called Zuboff’s Laws :

1. Everything that can be automated will be automated.
2. Everything that can be informated will be informated.
3. Every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control.

It’s very hard to argue with these 3 laws. Think for a minute about the implications of these laws and what they will mean for the idea of participatory democracy, transparency and human rights in the 21st century and beyond !

I write about ETs and human beings and how we human beings live because we have a choice in how we live. Caring about how we allow the information age to reshape us and our future is something I feel strongly that we all have an obligation to consider and act upon. But very few humans give a damn ! I post videos like those below, so that you too might make time to consider how the human world really works and if you wish to do anything about it !