These two utopias reflect two distinct species of power, and each novel was intent on rescuing the future from the twentieth-century nightmare of the soul. Orwell was able to draw on the recent past, but Skinner imagined a future that he would not live long enough to enjoy. If surveillance capitalism and its instrumentarian power continue to flourish, then it is we who may see the Walden Two vision realized, as freedom falls to others’ knowledge—but now in the service of others’ wealth and power.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1188