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Back to LibraryShoshana ZuboffGovernance and policyIncentives, surveillance, and powerseeded
A Human Future in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Zuboff outlines surveillance capitalism as an extraction and prediction regime in which human behavior becomes raw material for commercial optimization and control.
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This is valuable as adjacent political-economy context, but it is currently weaker than the TED-native entries because provenance is not TED-hosted in this dataset. Keep as contextual support, not a flagship TED anchor.
Perspective map
Risk-forwardSocietyHigh confidence
Risk-forwardCaution & harms
MixedBalanced framing
OpportunityUpside & deployment
For band and lens definitions, scoring, and counterbalance: see the Perspective Map Framework in Library methodology.
Risk-forward leaning, primarily in the Society lens. Evidence mode: interview. Confidence: high.
- - Emphasizes control
- - Emphasizes governance
- - Emphasizes policy
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