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. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds of our… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement,… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable.… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
“...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.” — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share
