Part manifesto, part deeply researched modern history, former Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff’s book urgently examines the tech industry’s increasingly disconcerting abuse of human ...

The impact of “Surveillance Capitalism” and this new data economy will be tremendous, but the outlook for the future is still up in the air. Personally, I think that if we continue down this course—an ...

For just $129, you too can make a friend. Technology startup Friend has taken over the New York City subway system with walls of minimalistic and dystopian advertising as part of a new ad campaign — ...

Surveillance capitalists have grown immensely wealthy from these trading operations, for many companies are willing to lay bets on our future behavior.” Unfortunately, we have not developed the ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. George Orwell published 1984 in 1949, imagining a dystopian future where the Party maintained absolute control ...

Throughout history, humans have always searched for ways to predict the future. AI is just the latest tool to try to predict how humans will behave. While some believe that predictive tools can be ...

Over the past two decades, an entirely new economic model has taken hold, seemingly right under our noses. Whereas the Internet and digital technologies once promised to liberate humanity through ...

Close your eyes and imagine a slot machine: flashing lights, motion, intermittent reinforcement, noise and visual “excitement” everywhere. The casino industry, after massive research, has refined ...