Too Smart How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World
epub | 283.94 KB | English | Author :Jathan Sadoki | B085448QPF | 2020 | The MIT Press

Book Description :

Who benefits from smart technology? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and connectivity?
Smart technology is everywhere: smart umbrellas that light up when rain is in the forecast; smart cars that relieve drivers of the drudgery of driving; smart toothbrushes that send your dental hygiene details to the cloud. Nothing is safe from smartification. In Too Smart, Jathan Sadoki looks at the proliferation of smart stuff in our lives and asks whether the tradeoff-exchanging our personal data for convenience and connectivity-is worth it. Who benefits from smart technology?
Sadoki explains how data, once the purview of researchers and policy wonks, has become a form of capital. Smart technology, he argues, is driven by the dual imperatives of digital capitalism: extracting data from, and expanding control over, everything and everybody. He looks at three domains colonized by smart technologies' collection...

Category : | Privacy & Surveillance, Media & Internet in Politics, Privacy & Surveillance in Society