Overview
Harvard Business School scholar whose 2019 book 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' brought mainstream attention to the political economy of data extraction. Several commentators have noted that Agre's capture model (1994) anticipated Zuboff's core arguments by 25 years, and arguably provides a more technically precise framework.
Alexander Galloway's essay 'Agre > Zuboff' makes the case explicitly. The comparison is important for the biography because it illustrates how far ahead of the mainstream discourse Agre was.