Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of three major books, each of which signaled the start of a new epoch in technological society. Her most recent work, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019), synthesizes her decades of research and thinking to reveal a new economic era in which once private human experience is secretly invaded, extracted as data, and exploited for hidden processes of manufacturing, prediction, and sales. The result is an antidemocratic surveillance economy founded on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power. An international bestseller currently translated into thirty languages, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has been hailed as the tech industry’s Silent Spring and praised as the Wealth of Nations and the Das Kapital of the twenty-first century. Professor Zuboff’s work has been recognized with the Axel Springer Award (2019), the inaugural Global Privacy Assembly Giovanni Buttarelli Award (2021), and the EPIC Lifetime Achievement Award (2021). She has received honorary degrees from the University of Amsterdam, the Copenhagen Business School, the University of Lucerne, and McGill University.  Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, Board Chair of EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Co-Director of the Research Fellowship on “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy” at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.