Civilization vs The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Cultural Policy, Cultural, Public Policy, Anthropology, Social Science, Political science
Civilization
Preface to complete edition.--Civilisation: its cause and cure.--Modern science: a criticism.--The science of the future: a forecast.--Defence of criminals: a criticism of morality.--Exfoliation: Lamarck versus…
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Age of Surveillance Capitalism highest: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 4.0 · Civilization 3.6.
- Civilization is the quickest read — about 3 hours vs 13 for The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism has the widest readership — 89 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Civilization | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.5 (41) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.0 (1) | 3.8 (89) |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (59) |
Reception
| Civilization | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 41 | 89 |
| Editions | 38 | 10 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 241 | — |
| Reading it now | 5 | — |
| Written reviews | 5 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 15763 | 3742 |
| Pages | 175 | 704 |