The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with Shoshana Zuboff and Rosamund Urwin

Published: Aug. 30, 2019, 2 a.m.

b'We live in an age of "surveillance capitalism" - where technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions. Big tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder, and entire industries now depend not only on predicting our behaviour but modifying it too.\\xa0That\'s the view of Shoshana\\xa0Zuboff, Harvard professor and author of\\xa0The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. In this week\'s episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast she was interviewed by Rosamund Urwin on the risks to our freedoms in this new era of human civilisation.\\n\\nSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\\n\\nSee acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'