In the Age of the Smart Machine
by Shoshana Zuboff · first published 1988
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An analysis of the impact of computer technology in the workplace. Includes in-depth interviews with workers and managers.
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The author, Shoshana Zuboff, is one of the pioneers of the information age. Her book 1988 book "In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power" is a classic. Zuboff's Laws: 1. Everything that can be automated will be automated. 2. Everything that can be informated will be informated. 3. In the absence of countervailing…
on “Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and Prospects of an Information Civilization” ↗…instance, as are numerous other surveilance, manipulation, and scoring systems. Shoshana Zuboff beat me to the punch by a good three-to-four decades with her three laws of automation and information, in The Age of the Smart Machine (published 1988, based on research in the late 1970s): 1. Everything that can be automated will be automated. 2. Everything that can be informated will be informated. 3. Every digital application that…
on “The Problem with Believing What We’re Told” ↗…Issues in Information Systems" (1976) - "Information Systems, Security, and Privacy" (1983) - "The new faces of privacy" (1993) https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/ware_willis_h.html Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988) Notably reviewed in the Whole Earth Catalog's Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age (1988). https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-age-of-the-smart-machi...…
on “Technologists have failed to listen to non-technologists” ↗…Information Systems” (1976) - “Information Systems, Security, and Privacy” (1983) - “The new faces of privacy” (1993) https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/ware_willis_h.html Misc - Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988) Notably reviewed in the Whole Earth Catalog’s Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age (1988). https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-age-of-the-smart-machi...…
on ““You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation” ↗…Author: Shoshana Zuboff Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Information Systems Research, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1981. https://www.worldcat.org/title/psychological-and-organizatio... In the age of the smart machine : the future of work and power Author: Shoshana Zuboff Publisher: Oxford : Heinemann, 1988 https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-age-of-the-smart-machi...
on “How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?” ↗…Zuboff's Third Law: Every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control, irrespective of its originating intention. Coined in the early 1980s, in The Age of the Smart Machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Zuboff
on “LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke” ↗…Information Systems" (1976) - "Information Systems, Security, and Privacy" (1983) - "The new faces of privacy" (1993) https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/ware_willis_h.html Misc Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988) Notably reviewed in the Whole Earth Catalog's Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age (1988). https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-age-of-the-smart-machi...…
on “IMF researchers: digital footprint yields better credit assessment” ↗