Shoshana Zuboff

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

Technology makes the world a new place.

Every century or so fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises cant meet.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.