In her 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff described surveillance capitalism as “a new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales,” as well as “a parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification.” In Faceminer, you are the vector by which this parasitic logic insinuates itself across the planet, touching and impacting the lives of everyone in it. It’s not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.