The Death of the Gods : The New Global Power Grab
Magisterial... a tour de force. Anthony Giddens
Essential reading. Jamie Bartlett
Prepare to be terrified, exhilarated and occasionally inspired. Catherine Mayer
Timely and incisive. Greg Williams, Wired
Thrilling and terrifying in equal measure. Olivia Solon
A groundbreaking examination of the new centres of power and control in the twenty-first century.
The old gods are dying. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. Governments are losing control. The old familiarities are tumbling down and a strange new social order is rising in their place. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots battle elections, technologists have reinvented democracy and information wars are breaking out around us. New mines produce crypto-currencies, coders write policy, and algorithms shape our lives in more ways than we can imagine. What is going on?
For centuries, writers and thinkers have used power as a p
Автор:
CARL MILLER
Издательство:
Cornerstone
Количество страниц:
400
Переплёт:
Твердый переплет
Язык:
ENG
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