“Surveillance capitalists exploit the widening inequity of knowledge for the sake of profits. They manipulate the economy, our society and even our lives with impunity, endangering not just individual privacy but democracy itself. Distracted by our delusions, we failed to notice this bloodless coup from above.” Shoshana Zuboff wrote the book on surveillance capitalism. So believe her when she explains in the NYT that, You Are Now Remotely Controlled. (Hopefully, it’s an AppleTV remote so there’s at least a chance that our overlords will lose it between couch cushions…)