Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verkaufsrang
11519
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
07.05.2026
Verlag
Penguin Books LtdSeitenzahl
176
Maße (L/B/H)
19,6/12,5/1,8 cm
Gewicht
126 g
Farbe
Orangerot / Champagner
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4059-8139-2
''Exactly the book you need right now' Stylist
'You know how the best writers pinpoint something you've felt for ages but haven't been able to articulate? This is like that. It's so good. She should give Radio 4's next Reith Lectures' Guardian
An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi Alderman
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power
What's the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we're living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis.
The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation, than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and also divides us in new ways, it is now the lens through which we perceive and understand the world. There is no going back. But we have been here before. In fact, this is humanity's third information crisis.
The first, the invention of writing 5,000 years ago, and the second, the invention of the printing press 600 years ago, drastically reshaped our perceptions, interactions and mental landscapes in ways that feel acutely familiar. Overwhelmed by information, people become afraid and angry, unsettled and distressed, as well as more knowledgeable, educated and curious. By looking at those previous information crises, both the turmoil and the advances, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand our present, and prepare for our future.
Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today explores how new technology opens up new ways of being and helps us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload.
'Alderman is one of our most surprising and delightful public intellectuals, and this book grapples wonderfully with our current schisms and their historical precedents' JON RONSON
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