Shoshana Zuboff (b.1951) is an American social psychologist and academic. This “the true prophet of the information age” specialized in studying the rise of the digital revolution and its consequences.
Zuboff got her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University. She has served as a member of the faculty of the Harvard Business School since 1981. She was one of the first tenured women at the Harvard Business School and the youngest woman to receive an endowed chair.
Zuboff’s books include In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988,) The Support Economy (2002,) and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2018.)
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Discovering “who I’ve been” is a prelude to finding out “who I’m becoming.” You have to understand the dynamics that have energized your life and how they’ve changed over the years. Then you can begin to see the change that will shape the next phase of your life.
—Shoshana Zuboff
Personal information is increasingly used to enforce standards of behavior. Information processing is developing, therefore, into an essential element of long-term strategies of manipulation intended to mold and adjust individual conduct.
—Shoshana Zuboff
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
—Shoshana Zuboff
Topics: Awareness
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