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The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

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“The internet arrived for most of us in the late 1990s, into a society where the middle class was starting to crumble and where financial insecurity was rising, and we were sleeping an hour less than people did in 1945. It would always have been hard to resist the sophisticated human-hacking of surveillance capitalism, but it appeared we were already getting weaker, and we were easier to hack than we would have been otherwise.”

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“For example, vehicles monitor their drivers’ behavior and share the data with the algorithms of the insurance companies, which raise the premiums they charge “bad drivers” and lower the premiums for “good drivers.” The American scholar Shoshana Zuboff has termed this ever-expanding commercial monitoring system “surveillance capitalism.”

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“You are no longer being tracked. You are being continued.”

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