The book’s set-up with multiple scenarios for the future works surprisingly well and is especiall concerning for European readers: Europe is almost completely irrelevant in all of Webb’s scenarios.
Facebook’s content strategy leads to filter bubbles, thereby destroying the cohesion in society
When a a big tech investor like McNamee argues for stricter regulation it makes the argument more convincing.
You are the raw material of capitalists trading in futures on human behavior
Shoshana Zuboff – Surveillance capitalism
There is a tendency in critiques of ‘big tech’ to underestimate the long-term resilliance of mankind; although that does not render the argument invalid.