Part manifesto, part deeply researched modern history, former Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff’s book urgently examines the tech industry’s increasingly disconcerting abuse of human ...

The impact of “Surveillance Capitalism” and this new data economy will be tremendous, but the outlook for the future is still up in the air. Personally, I think that if we continue down this course—an ...

For just $129, you too can make a friend. Technology startup Friend has taken over the New York City subway system with walls of minimalistic and dystopian advertising as part of a new ad campaign — ...

Late-stage capitalism has transformed housing into an asset class, created a pay-to-survive economy, and is destroying the planet for short-term gains, resulting in a system that is generating value ...

Zuboff’s meticulously researched analysis reveals the hidden mechanisms of digital surveillance and algorithmic governance. This non-fiction tour de force is a wake-up call for anyone concerned about ...

Self-alienation, promulgated by glamour magazines, film, and television, were already distorting young minds — minus, of course the “Instagram face,” the “TikTok body.” That’s the capitalism I knew ...

Surveillance capitalists have grown immensely wealthy from these trading operations, for many companies are willing to lay bets on our future behavior.” Unfortunately, we have not developed the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The author of many tech books, Michael Ashley covers AI and Big Data. An experienced marketer who groks data’s value in the ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. George Orwell published 1984 in 1949, imagining a dystopian future where the Party maintained absolute control ...

Over the past two decades, an entirely new economic model has taken hold, seemingly right under our noses. Whereas the Internet and digital technologies once promised to liberate humanity through ...