<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://jazz.fm/maria-schneider-data-lords-pulitzer-prize-music/">https://jazz.fm/maria-schneider-data-lords-pulitzer-prize-music/</a><br></div><div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><a href="https://www.mariaschneider.com/home/albuminfo?id=1083">https://www.mariaschneider.com/home/albuminfo?id=1083</a><span style="color:rgb(109,108,108);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><a href="https://www.stereophile.com/content/maria-schneider-there-anybody-out-there">https://www.stereophile.com/content/maria-schneider-there-anybody-out-there</a><br></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><br></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">From Stereophile interview at website above:</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><br></div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:roboto,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:18px">"The data lords are gathering data and giving it to organizations that then manipulate us with the things they know about us, things that we don't even know about ourselves," says five-time Grammy Award–winning composer, conductor, producer, and band leader Maria Schneider. "They give our data to any company that'll pay for it to manipulate you, specifically targeting your vulnerabilities. It takes away freedom of thought, a true discourse where people are thinking for themselves. Count me out."</span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------</div>Maria Schnieder might not agree with this comparison, but perhaps some of the themes explored musically in her album "Data Lords" are related to Harvard economics professor Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif">The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power."</span><div><a href="https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/">https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/</a><font color="#000000" face="Source Sans Pro, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font color="#000000" face="Source Sans Pro, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(109,108,108);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">"In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth."</span><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(109,108,108);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">--------------------------------</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">Text from inside the double CD Data Lords album, one CD named "The Digital World" the other "Our Natural World:"</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><br></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">A story of two worlds...</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><br></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">one clutters the mind, the other clears it</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">one seduces and exploits, the other nurtures</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">one ultimately isolates, the other truly connects</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">one clamors for our attention, the other simply awaits it</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">one force-feeds answers, the other inspires questions</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">one manipulates our thoughts, the other grants freedom of thought</div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><br></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(109,108,108);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">--------------------------------------</span></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(109,108,108);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</span></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(109,108,108);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-title-header__bylines" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(109,108,108);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div></div>