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Beschreibung
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. Once we understand this, both the past, and the future, start to look very different indeed.
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. Once we understand this, both the past, and the future, start to look very different indeed.
Über den Autor
Niall Ferguson
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Türme und Plätze
Inhalt: 574 S.
ISBN-13: 9780141984810
ISBN-10: 0141984813
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 439088
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ferguson, Niall
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Penguin Press
Penguin Classics
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Maße: 195 x 128 x 38 mm
Von/Mit: Niall Ferguson
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,444 kg
Artikel-ID: 111090769

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