If The Age of Choice by revealed how abundance paralyzes agency, meet the architects engineering that paralysis in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by .
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- Silicon Valley's control decoded w/ receipts
- Algorithmic coercion replacing consumer abundance paralysis
- Tech libertarianism dissected like Enlightenment myths
- Data extraction = your autonomy weaponized
If Rosenfeld taught you that the tyranny of choice is itself a choice made for you, then Zuboff will show you who's been rigging the menu all along. The illusion of digital empowerment—swipe, click, customize—collapses under her forensic examination of how surveillance capitalism monetizes your autonomy before you even realize it's gone. This isn't tech critique; it's an ideological reckoning with the systems that disguise control as convenience, turning Enlightenment ideals into data streams.
Where 'The Age of Choice' interrogated paralysis by abundance, Zuboff exposes the apparatus engineering that paralysis: algorithms that nudge, predict, and profit from every flicker of agency you thought was yours alone.
True freedom, it turns out, demands resistance to choices designed in boardrooms.
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"Zuboff sets out a convincing and shocking analysis...an invaluable guide that solidified ideas I already had..." — Anna, Goodreads
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