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The High-Tech, Post-COVID Life
Naomi Klein, senior correspondent for The Intercept, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, co-founder of The Leap, a climate justice organization, and the author of many books, including On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (Simon & Schuster, 2019), argues that the pandemic has been a major opportunity for Big Tech to integrate more completely into Americans' lives, and that politicians have given Silicon Valley more power than ever before.
? VIRTUAL EVENT: Naomi Klein will be in conversation with Shoshana Zuboff to talk about surveillance capitalism and the coronavirus shock doctrine. You can watch it live on May 28th at 4PM ET on www.TheIntercept.com. For more information, click here.