If we are to rediscover our sense of astonishment, then let it be here: if industrial civilization flourished at the expense of nature and now threatens to cost us the Earth, an information civilization shaped by surveillance capitalism will thrive at the expense of human nature and threatens to cost us our humanity. Polanyi’s prophecy requires us to ask if we may yet avert this fate with our own synthetic declarations.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1102