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Jathan Sadowski is a researcher and writer focusing on technology, politics, and society. He has written extensively on digital capitalism, automation, and the social implications of emerging technologies.
Known for: Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World
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Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism Is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World
In 'Too Smart', Jathan Sadowski critically examines how digital technologies—especially those branded as 'smart'—are reshaping capitalism, labor, and everyday life. He argues that the rise of smart devices and data-driven systems represents a new phase of digital capitalism, one that extracts value from users through surveillance and algorithmic control. The book explores the political economy of smart technologies and calls for a rethinking of how society engages with data and automation.
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Historical Context: From Industrial to Digital Capitalism
To understand the rise of smartness, we must trace the trajectory of capitalism itself. Historically, each transformation of capitalism has been accompanied by new technological infrastructures and new rationalities of control. The industrial factory did not simply expand production—it reorganized l...
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The Smart Ideology: Benevolence as Control
At the heart of smartness lies a paradox. These technologies promise empowerment but often deliver subjugation. They invite us to participate willingly in systems that are fundamentally exploitative. The language of convenience, innovation, and personalization conceals the asymmetry between those wh...
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About Jathan Sadowski
Jathan Sadowski is a researcher and writer focusing on technology, politics, and society. He has written extensively on digital capitalism, automation, and the social implications of emerging technologies. Sadowski holds a PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona Sta...
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Jathan Sadowski is a researcher and writer focusing on technology, politics, and society. He has written extensively on digital capitalism, automation, and the social implications of emerging technologies. Sadowski holds a PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona Sta...
Jathan Sadowski is a researcher and writer focusing on technology, politics, and society. He has written extensively on digital capitalism, automation, and the social implications of emerging technologies. Sadowski holds a PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona State University and is known for his critical analyses of smart technologies and data economies.
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Jathan Sadowski is a researcher and writer focusing on technology, politics, and society. He has written extensively on digital capitalism, automation, and the social implications of emerging technologies.
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