![]() ![]() Over the last two decades, I’ve observed the consequences of this surprising political-economic fraternity as those young companies morphed into surveillance empires powered by global architectures of behavioral monitoring, analysis, targeting and prediction that I have called surveillance capitalism. I have spent exactly 42 years studying the rise of the digital as an economic force driving our transformation into an information civilization. ![]() 6, it threatened to burn down democracy’s house. Twenty years later, the fire has jumped the screen, and on Jan. In the years that followed, a surveillance society flourished in those rooms, a social vision born in the distinct but reciprocal needs of public intelligence agencies and private internet companies, both spellbound by a dream of total information awareness. Two decades ago, the American government left democracy’s front door open to California’s fledgling internet companies, a cozy fire lit in welcome. ![]()
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