Sunday Thoughts 001
The Earth provides the resources for the real economic to function: extraction of raw materials, production of goods, servicing customers. Primary, secondary, tertiary. Henry Ford revolutionised production.
The Customers now provide the resources for the surveillance economy (Shoshana Zuboff) to function: extraction of behavioural surplus, prediction of behaviour, is there a yet to be identified tertiary sector of this economy? Google revolutionised extraction.
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Sunday Thoughts is a weekly series of sometimes incomplete thought pieces to stimulate thinking and annoy you.