#223 You Don’t Use Google, Google Uses You! (With Prof. Shoshana Zuboff)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

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🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This week we welcome the incredible Prof. Shoshana Zuboff, writer, activist, and scholar (Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School). She is the author of three books, each of which signaled the start of a new epoch in technological society. Her most recent book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, has been called “the Das Kapital of the 21st Century.” You may recognise Prof. Zuboff from the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, which highlighted how nefarious and powerful big tech companies like Facebook and Google really are. We are now in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and it is worse than you think. Google, from the time of its inception, intended to mine you for your data, invade your privacy, and use you for profit. Prof. Shoshana Zuboff has the inside information, and reveals all in this episode. More Info: For more info on Prof Shoshana’s work go here: https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/ My meditation podcast, Above the Noise, is out now, only on Luminary. I release guided meditations every Wednesday. Please check it out: http://luminary.link/meditate Elites are taking over! Our only hope is to form our own. To learn more join my cartel here https://www.russellbrand.com/join and get weekly bulletins too incendiary for anything but your private inbox. (*not a euphemism) Subscribe to my YouTube channel, I post four videos a week including video clips from these episodes! https://www.youtube.com/russellbrand Subscribe to my YouTube side-channel for more wellness and spirituality: https://www.youtube.com/c/AwakeningWithRussell Instagram: http://instagram.com/russellbrand/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/rustyrockets

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to one of the skin from luminary this week. I spoke with Professor Shoshana Zuboff
0:05.3	Professor Shoshana Zuboff you will know her from that movie, you know, what was it called?
0:11.4	Social dilemma. You saw her in that but really you're being reductive by knowing her from that
0:16.3	because she's the author of free books each of which signaled the start of a new epoch in technological
0:20.3	society. What? Her most recent book she's an epoch maker. Is this did you write it, Jen?
0:24.8	No, I did another cardigan. The age of surveillance capitalism has been the
0:31.6	Das Kapital of the 21st century. That's pretty good isn't it? To write a Das Kapital for the 21st
0:37.1	century. She's also a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School. Now that under the skin is on
0:42.3	Apple Podcasts, please leave a review there. It helps us and we'll read them all out. If you'd like
0:45.8	to listen to the rest of this podcast and all of my weekly under the skin podcast, all you have to do
0:49.3	is subscribe to luminary on Apple Podcasts or download the luminary app. In this part we talk about Google
0:54.2	always intended to be what it is and harvest personal information covertly. If you love this conversation,
0:59.6	it just shows that Google is steeped in corruption and have a listen, you'll love it.
1:05.6	Trying to achieve equality with the annihilation of category is not successful.
1:10.4	Yeah, that's exactly right. We're in this era where it turns out we were never supposed to
1:16.0	look like an hydrologm. What's beneath the surface of people we admire,
1:20.6	the ideas that define our time, the history we're told. Welcome to Russell Brand.
1:26.7	Under the skin. Do you think that given that it was birthed out of a, this previous set of institutions,
1:35.2	you know, it's immediate predecessors, all of which is Frankenstein into some terrifying new reality
1:41.5	that the institutions that midwife to into reality are going to have the facility or even the will to
1:47.6	impede let alone demonopolize these institutions that you have described.
1:55.6	Okay, good question. So let me just, let me take a little, you know, a little moment to sort of
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