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• Bookworm (2025-09-26 15:05 ID:GOr5di9H )
• I don't find Goodreads particularly helpful for deciding on books, the opinions of other board users are much more useful usually. \n\n I found a cheap copy of 'The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism' by Shoshana Zuboff. I know the gist of the ideas already, does it go in depth or is it a surface level book? \n\n Please post if you have other books you're thinking of getting but are on the fence about. \n\n
• Bookworm (2025-09-30 11:26 ID:wm3OJVra )
• No, X (the site formerly known as Twitter) is not worth reading. \n\n
• Bookworm (2025-10-26 20:19 ID:1hjYioTU )
• >>1
• Given how popular it is, it can’t hurt not to be familiar with her arguments by reading the book. \n\n
• Bookworm (2025-11-25 15:30 ID:GOr5di9H )
• > >Given how popular it is, it can’t hurt not to be familiar with her arguments by reading the book.No, but I have so much I'd rather read and so little time, I don't want to waste it. If it's mostly stuff I already know about or if it's really repetitive, I don't even want to bother.
• I've not yet checked it by the way. It's sat on my bookshelf this whole time. \n\n
• Bookworm (2025-11-28 02:14 ID:PSRtTAwi )
• >>4
• I guess you could ask people for the most essential chapters and just read those. \n\n
• Bookworm (2025-11-28 11:41 ID:HKtkNeud )
• i'll read it for you and tell you anon \n\n
• Bookworm (2025-12-18 02:20 ID:ymJl8YSO )
• >>1
• I’d recommend Colin Koopman’s How We Became Our Data over Zuboff’s book. He looks at how the information society rose gradually over a century ago and so the stuff Zuboff calls surveillance capitalism is a lot older than she thinks and has been in the pipeline for a long time. \n\n
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