I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow's outlook & his critique of Shoshanna Zuboff's Age of Survelliance Capitalism, which is largely that these are not near magical s

I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow's outlook & his critique of Shoshanna Zuboff's Age of Survelliance Capitalism, which is largely that these are not near magical superpowered systems which can with incredible precision reprogram human behavior & reshape the world. These companies want to convince us of their superhuman insight & abilities, and rather than sustain a skeptical counter-outlook, the prevailing counter-narrative is to drastically over-subscribe their hype & to radically over-project their capabilities, is freaking the frell out & panicking about it. https://www.cigionline.org/articles/doctorow-versus-zuboff/ https://www.cigionline.org/articles/doctorow-versus-zuboff/