Shoshana Zuboff

Technology makes the world a new place.

— Shoshana Zuboff

Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of…

— Shoshana Zuboff

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

— Shoshana Zuboff

My teenage children watched Senator Clinton on the Today Show, mouths agape. They attended our local caucus with me and saw hundreds…

— Shoshana Zuboff

I've lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

— Shoshana Zuboff

Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is…

— Shoshana Zuboff

If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is…

— Shoshana Zuboff

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

— Shoshana Zuboff

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

— Shoshana Zuboff

The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish…

— Shoshana Zuboff

“...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.”

— Shoshana Zuboff

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil,…

— Shoshana Zuboff

We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what…

— Shoshana Zuboff

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

— Shoshana Zuboff

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence…

— Shoshana Zuboff

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the…

— Shoshana Zuboff

It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm…

— Shoshana Zuboff

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

— Shoshana Zuboff

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

— Shoshana Zuboff