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Then Google made a fateful discovery: "data exhaust," or the byproduct of user digital behavior, was not waste to be expelled but gold to be mined. Web searches don't just generate results; they generate data: the way you type your query, the heatmap of your mouse, the pages you do or don't visit, and more. This exhaust was actually a "behavioral surplus" capable of bolstering Google's burgeoning advertising business by incorporating predictive modeling based on data its users generated.

AI, Slavery, Surveillance, and Capitalism

Substack

The report showed that while ‘intangible assets’ were growing on US and UK company balance sheets at nearly three times the rate of tangible assets, the actual size of the digital sector in the GDP figures had remained static. So something is broken in the logic we use to value the most important thing in the modern economy.

PostCapitalism

Paul Mason

It was strange that a company’s reputation for security was more important than its actual security.

New Waves

Kevin Nguyen

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