The Square and the Tower
Pocketbok. Penguin Books Ltd. 2018.
Nära nyskick. The 21st century has been hailed as the Networked Age. But in The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. Those looking forward to a utopia of interconnected 'netizens' may therefore be disappointed. For networks are prone to clustering, contagions and even outages. And the conflicts of the past already have unnerving parallels today, in the time of Facebook, Islamic State and Trumpworld.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780141984810
- Titel
- The Square and the Tower
- Författare
- Niall Ferguson
- Förlag
- Penguin Books Ltd.
- Utgivningsår
- 2018
- Bandtyp
- Vikt
- 500 g
- Språk
- English