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Every book Roger McNamee recommended on podcasts
Roger McNamee appeared on Modern Wisdom to discuss technology, data privacy, and the business models of major social media corporations. He strongly recommended The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, describing it as a transformative text that exposes the underlying economic systems driving digital addiction and data harvesting. McNamee urged listeners to read or listen to the audiobook version, calling it the most crucial resource for understanding modern technology companies. To emphasize the historical scale of Zuboff's work, McNamee compared it to Adam Smith's classic The Wealth of Nations, arguing that Zuboff's analysis will serve as the defining economic framework for the twenty-first century in the same way Smith's work shaped the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through this recommendation, McNamee underscored the urgent need for society to recognize and combat the pervasive influence of corporate surveillance.
Books recommended by Roger McNamee
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff examines how major technology corporations collect and monetize personal data, fundamentally altering society and human autonomy.
Recommended“earlier this year a professor from Harvard Business School names Shoshanna subha published a book called the age of surveillance captain it actually came out in Europe in the fall of last year but it came out in the States in January and it changed our lives because Shoshanna has been studying Google for more than a decade and she”
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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a foundational 1776 text examining the nature and causes of the wealth of nations and the mechanics of a free market economy.
Discussed“I really feel strongly about this that this book is to the 21st century what Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was to the 18th and 19th”
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Books Roger McNamee wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Is Facebook Zucked? - Roger McNamee - #093 | Modern Wisdom | 2019-08-12 | 3 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and I've written a book called sucked waking up to the facebook catastrophe which has been a platform for activism”