What is being abolished is autonomous man—the inner man, the homunculus, the possessing demon, the man defended by the literatures of freedom and dignity. His abolition has long been overdue.… He has been constructed from our ignorance, and as our understanding increases, the very stuff of which he is composed vanishes… and it must do so if it is to prevent the abolition of the human species. To man qua man we readily say good riddance. Only by dispossessing him can we turn… from the inferred to the observed, from the miraculous to the natural, from the inaccessible to the manipulable.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1400