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Questions:

#DQ1: What is the significance of the title? Do you think this is a good title for the essay? Please elaborate. ? " 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism."

#DQ2: Why does John Naughton (the writer of this review), select the year 1495, as an introduction to this essay? What is the significance of the comparison between 1495 and now? Please elaborate. Do you agree? Why? if not, why not?

#DQ3: Who is Shoshana Zuboff? What did you find interesting about her research and scholarship? Why? Please elaborate.

#DQ4: What were the first two articles that gave a glimpse into Zuboff's key arguments about? Briefly review and elaborate the essays. Were these startling from the perspective of 2015? How? If not, why not?

#DQ5: What are the distinct characteristics and drivers of 'Surveillance capitalism'?Briefly elaborate key concepts that makes up this form of capitalism. In your assessment what are the key drivers?

#DQ6: What does Zuboff mean by behavior surplus and behavioral future markets? Based on your personal digital experience, what are some examples of your individual and/or our collective "behavioral surplus?" How are technology companies using this surplus? What will some of these behavior futures markets look like? That is, what types of products can we expect that will use the behavior surplus Please elaborate.

#DQ7: The author here contrasts Adam Smith, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi, and Karl Marx with Shoshana Zuboff to illustrate how the former wrote about the evolution and contradictions of industrial capitalism, and the latter (Zuboff) is writing about the evolution and contradictions of a new mode of capitalism. What are the common underlying drivers? What is different?

#DQ8: What are beacons and shadow profiles? What are the used for? According to the author, what are the longer implications or effects of these practices by Google and Facebook on the business model, laws and protections of our individual digital privacy, etc? Please elaborate.
#DQ9:What are the similarities in the business strategies of John D Rockefeller, Google and Facebook, according to the author? What is the significance of this comparison? Please elaborate

#DQ10:What are the profound consequences for democracy? What does the author mean by asymmetries of power and asymmetries of knowledge? Do you agree? Please elaborate.

#DQ11:According to Zuboff, the essence of the problem "the logic of accumulation" implicit in Surveillance Capitalism. Please read the interview below and explain the logic of accumulation.

#DQ12: Summarize the brief history of Surveillance Capitalism and list key moments and events.

#DQ13:What is the role of advertising in turbocharging SC? Please elaborate using examples. Review the pew research website for current data on media advertising.

#DQ14: Why does Zuboff find the term 'digital natives' ironic? Contrast the patterns of European colonialism with Digital colonialism of Surveillance capitalism? What do you find interesting about this comparison, especially if you consider it from the perspective of the natives of Caribbean islands and today's Digital natives?

#DQ15:How does the evolution of division of labor in the Industrial Age contrast with the division of labor in the Information Age? What does the author mean by 'division of learning in society.' Please elaborate using examples

#DQ16: What does this statement mean and what is its broader signficance: The big story is not really the technology per se but...[it] has spawned a new variant of capitalism? Please clarify and then elaborate.

#DQ17: What does this statement mean and what are its implications" "While it is impossible to imagine SC without the digital, it is easy to imagine the digital without SC."

#DQ18: How has surveillance capitalism evolved? Please elaborate the trajectory. What do you find interesting about these trends? Why? Briefly elaborate.

#DQ19: What is the significance of this metaphor as it applies to new means for behavioral modification? What concerns does the author raise about declining individual freedom, choice, and autonomy?

#DQ20: In what ways, according to the author, is surveillance capitalism anti democratic and anti egalitarian? What examples can you think of that highlight this dynamic?

#DQ21:What does the author mean by personal necessity and economic extraction? How are our daily activities also become part of a supply chain for surveillance capitalism? Please elaborate using examples of your daily digital activities.
#DQ22:Contrast how political participation especially in the Presidential election campaign of 2020. rely on "necessity, dependency the foreclosure of alternatives, and enforced ignorance."

#DQ23:"Surveillance capitalism (SC) is a human-made phenomenon and it is in the realm of politics that it must be confronted." Elaborate the significance of this statement. What are some strategies that SC and the "big other" can be confronted? Please elaborate one personal and one policy solution.

#DQ24:What is GDPR? What are some of the key elements of GDPR that can and should be adopted in the United States?

#DQ25:What are the author's critiques of solutions such as data-ownership? Do you agree? If so, why. If not, why not?

#DQ26:What are some emerging laws and legal concepts that are designed to regulate surveillance capitalism? Please elaborate using examples of laws and/or regulations (e.g., U.S. state laws; California, EU.)

#DQ27:What are the author's overall concerns about eliminating or reducing the negative effects of surveillance capitalism? Please elaborate using examples including skepticism about anti-trust? Do you agree with the author? If so, why? If not, why not?

#DQ28:How are strategies in the Presidential election campaign of 2020 a form of "rogue mutation"? Please elaborate using examples.