Recall Varian's assertion that if someone stops making monthly car payments, "Nowadays it's a lot easier just to instruct the vehicular monitoring system not to allow the car to be started and to signal the location where it can be picked up." Varian calls this new capability a "new contract form," when in reality the uncontract abandons the human world of legally binding promises and substitutes instead the positivist calculations of automated machine processes. Without so much as a tip of the cap and a "fare-thee-well," Varian's uncontract disposes of several millennia of societal evolution during which Western civilization institutionalized the contract as a grand achievement of shared will.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1047