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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Age of Surveillance Capitalism provides a revealing look at just how committed companies like google and Facebook are to tracking every one of your actions selling that data to advertisers. Over the past few years, this business practice has become one of the most prominent worldwide, and the harmful effects it has on personal liberty and democracy are becoming more apparent. Surveillance capitalism is the business of taking people’s data and using it to make a profit. This includes location tracking, search history, contacts, browsing history, biometric data, when you go to sleep and wake up, how often you recharge your battery – the list goes on and on. This information is then analyzed for behavioral trends and sold to help advertisers better target customers. But author Shoshana Zuboff is hoping that people won’t accept these invasive practices as the new status quo and holds out hope that we can find a way to establish better

The end of two cities

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THE END OF TWO CITIES                                                  Introduction The City of God is the most important work of Augustine’s intellectual legacy and one of the foundational works of western thought. It is written in the early 5 th century AD. It deals with issues concerning God, suffering, the problem of evil, end times, martyrdom, Jews and many aspects of Christian Philosophy. The book is divided into 22 books. The first part is polemic (Books I-X), and its goal is to refute paganism by revealing its deficiencies concerning Christianity. The other part is expository with the purpose of presenting and defending Christian doctrine by introducing and discussing the history of salvation (Books XI-XXII). Augustine speaks of two cities on the basis of love. The doctrines of two cities are divided into heavenly and earthly. The city of God is characterized by the love of God and praising God all the times. The earthly city was characterized by the love tow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow                                                              Introduction Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher and the most widely-read writer in the present world.   His main works are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow , and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century . In Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow , Yuval Noah Harari speaks of the possible futures for humanity grounded on its past. In this, he inspects cognitive revolution, scientific methodology, Artificial intelligence, post-humanism, and the combination of biotechnology and information technology through free will, consciousness, and intelligence. This work is an attempt to discuss certain possibilities rather than prophecies. Homo Deus is populated with ideas that will make us question the direction that the world is going in and if you like this direction. The possibility of Homo Deus in the future i