What Is Surveillance Capitalism?

So the other day, I was having a somewhat politically incorrect conversation with my fiancé. At one point, I slightly rebuked her by saying, "Honey, you know, Mark Zuckerburg could be listening to us as we speak!" Yeah, we've grown quite comfortable with Big Brother in our household. In line with that, I wanted to talk today a little bit about what's been called Surveillance Capitalism. Lately, I've been commenting a lot on artificial intelligence.