Visiting Prof. Nicholas Carr at Williams College has a great review of the book “Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshana Zuboff:
Surveillance Capitalism is described as (emphasis mine):
“Pioneered by Google, perfected by Facebook, and now spreading throughout the economy, surveillance capitalism uses human life as its raw material.”
Read the article, it is great:
There is also a good Hacker News thread about the article with interesting comments: Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism | Hacker News