# The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Zuboff's analysis of an economic logic that claims private human experience as free raw material for behavioral prediction and sale.

## Summary

[Shoshana Zuboff](/wiki/shoshana-zuboff.md)'s book names and dissects *surveillance capitalism*: an economic order that unilaterally claims human experience as raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and behavioral modification. She argues this logic concentrates power and erodes autonomy and democracy.

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## Why it matters

Zuboff supplies the diagnosis the Independent Internet answers: if the Web 2.0 settlement turned users into raw material, then [surveillance capitalism](/wiki/surveillance-capitalism.md) is the problem and [decentralization](/wiki/decentralization.md) — self-hosting, on-premises data, no corporate intermediary — is the structural response.

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## Backlinks

Pages that link here:

- [Glossary](/wiki/glossary.md) — Formal definitions of the key terms behind the Independent Internet and Web 4.0, as used across this wiki, with links to source material.
- [Shoshana Zuboff](/wiki/shoshana-zuboff.md) — Scholar of the digital economy who named and dissected surveillance capitalism.
- [Surveillance Capitalism](/wiki/surveillance-capitalism.md) — An economic logic that claims private human experience as free raw material for behavioral prediction — the problem the Independent Internet answers.