Shoshana Zuboff

Shoshana Zuboff strikes me as one of the most necessary thinkers of our moment. A Harvard Business School professor emerita, she gave us the vocabulary of surveillance capitalism, naming the quiet machinery that turns our online lives into someone else's raw material. What impresses me most is her range, moving fluently across economics, sociology and psychology to see a problem whole rather than in fragments. Her 2019 Axel Springer Award felt well deserved. I have deep respect for scholars who refuse to look away from the shadow side of convenience, and who insist we reckon with the price of the tools we love.

Name (English)

Shoshana Zuboff

Name (Japanese)

ショシャナ・ズボフ

Reading

しょしゃな・ずぼふ

Born

November 18, 1951 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Occupation

economist / sociologist / university teacher / psychologist / writer

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• 2019 Axel Springer Award

• Official sitehttps://shoshanazuboff.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/shoshanazuboff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana%20Zuboff
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15953956

Tags

• economist
• sociologist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-21

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