The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power - Niall Ferguson Audiobook
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Most history is hierarchical: it’s about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that’s simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks-leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati?
The twenty-first 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.
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 4.3/5
October 9th, 2017
Ferguson writes decent stuff, but - typical of every middle class politically correct hypocrite - not remotely as good as HE thinks he is.
October 11th, 2017
Thought-provoking, as are all your uploads. Many thanks!
April 4th, 2018
The ending he covers China and Cryptocurrency. Prescient.
Very good book. Network theory is an interesting way to view history… especially when he talks about the resilience of ISIS and terrorist networks that form the structures of a state across the region.
Also, the person doing the narration does a stellar job with the different character impressions.
August 16th, 2018
I wouldn’t call Ferguson politically correct.
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