March's Not Fiction Book Discussion

 

In this month's discussion, we'll talk about the evolution of capitalism as described in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff. Zuboff, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School and a former Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, argues that through internet platforms we interact with every day, our private lives have become a free raw material that "surveillance capitalists" exploit without regulation to predict and shape human behavior. They are the new conquistadors and Gilded Age industrialists of the 21st century.

We hope you will join the discussion:

When? Tuesday, March 2, at 6:30 p.m.

Where? We will meet virtually on CCPL's Zoom server. Here is a link to register for the March meeting:

Hi there, 

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.  

When: March 2, 2021 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqceisqjkvGdQlXPa0Wx5dyNGMbiuz9u5K 

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Readalikes: If you enjoyed February's selection . . .

 If you enjoyed Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana, then you might also enjoy these books suggested by our discussion group members:

• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
• What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, The General in His Labyrinth, and others by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann
• Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, The Feast of the Goat, and others by Mario Vargas Llosa
• The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

You might also enjoy listening to this podcast suggested by a discussion group member:

• There Will Be Bananas. Throughline. NPR 1/9/2020