Quotes from Shoshana Zuboff

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Technology makes the world a new place.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.