The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

By 2017, exactly twenty years after the publication of Picard’s book, a leading market research firm forecast that the “affective computing market,” including software that recognizes speech, gesture, and facial expressions along with sensors, cameras, storage devices, and processors, would grow from $9.35 billion in 2015 to $53.98 billion in 2021, predicting a compounded annual growth rate of nearly 35 percent. What happened to cause this explosion?