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

Smart skin, described as “the ultimate sensing tool that could potentially allow for the mass implementation of perpetual wireless networks,”18 can cognize, sense, analyze, wirelessly communicate, and “modify parameters” using simple radio frequency (RFID) technology.19 As in the case of Paradiso’s “sensor tape,” the researchers stress that it can also “be applied everywhere” to “monitor, sense, and interact with the world around us in a perpetual way, thus significantly enhancing ambient intelligence,”