I wish I had time for a lengthy review with quoted excerpts because this book deserves one. I have great respect for the way Zuboff wrote this and she did not need to explain-I wish she would have written this more apologetically. I loved the poetry and autobiographical passages and would have preferred much more of them.
It is a difficult book to read and took me far longer than I expected but she is trying to invent a new vocabulary and search out ways to explain the unprecedented so it is entirely understandable.
Zuboff has enshrined democracy and bought entirely into it's self-congratulatory myths and interpretation of itself as the savior of history.
There are two texts that seem to be missing from her discussion: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars and especially Industrial Society and it's Future.
Her biases are unfortunate, but instincts are largely correct and for me, I think this is the critical thing. Ultimately, I am on her side on this.
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