January 23, 2019, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Sargent Hall, Fourth Floor Moot Courtroom, 120 Tremont Street, Boston. Please join Shoshana Zuboff, Harvard Business School professor emerita, upon the publication of her latest book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power and moderator Christopher Lydon, radio host of WBUR’s Open Source.
The challenge to humanity posed by corporations that predict and control our behavior with our data. The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal was just a glimpse of the ways big tech companies exploit personal data without our knowledge, and how those data are used to shape our behavior. Our challenge now is to move past the shock and revulsion to ask the most important question of our time: Will we be the masters of the information age or will it master us?
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism reveals what is at stake for our digital future and how we can reclaim control by harnessing the power of indignant citizens, journalists and policymakers. Finally, we have the book that will lift the lid off of this hidden territory in a comprehensive geography, seven years in the making: its economics, operations, secrets, power, plan for society, consequences for humanity. This is the map we have been waiting for to point us forward.
“A masterpiece of rare conceptual daring, beautifully written and deeply urgent. — Robert B. Reich
