Networks Rising

Thinking Together in a Connected World

Christopher Burns (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2022
Gaudium Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-59211-165-7 (ISBN)

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For the second time in human history, we are on the verge of broad new breakthroughs in health, productivity, and personal freedom. And many-to-many networks are the reason. In business, government, and war, information is no longer the privilege of a powerful few. Now everyone knows what anyone knows, and we are applying that diversity of experience and perspective to expand the frontiers of our lives. We are starting to think together. The age of hierarchical organizations has ended. Social media networks, online forums, and guerilla broadcasting are connecting us in communities with fewer bureaucratic layers. In swarms, walkouts, strikes, and insurrections, people are sharing experience directly in real time, marching together into the public square, and demanding a greater voice in the new democracy. Networks Rising is the colorful story of unsung technology wizards waving us on, of philosophers struggling to free us from the dictates of church and state, and of sociologists, futurists, and even science fiction writers offering dozens of new schemes for living in a more connected world. At a time when so many of our institutions seem deeply challenged, we are actually poised at the beginning of what might be humanity's greatest leap forward in 25,000 years.

Chapter 1: Discovering FirePierre Teilhard de Chardin • A New Species • A Bold Vision Chapter 2: Talking with MachinesGrace Hopper • Douglas Engelbart • The Augmentation Project • The Unfinished RevolutionChapter 3: The Deep NetworkThe Network Comes to Life • Social Technology • Surveillance Chapter 4: Freedom and Social OrderImmanuel Kant • Voltaire and Rousseau • The Social Contract • IntermentChapter 5: Souls of GoldÉmile Durkheim • A Conscious Collective • A Sacrifice is Called For • H. G. Wells • War of the Worlds. Chapter 6: Breaking FreeFriedrich Nietzsche • Jean-Paul SartreChapter 7: Thinking TogetherEleanor Roosevelt • A Bright Beginning • Groups Make Better Decisions • A New Balance. Chapter 8: A Flatter WorldThe Fall of the UN • The Rise of NGOsChapter 9: Science DreamsTheodore Sturgeon • Isaac Asimov • Gene Roddenberry • George Lucas • Arthur C. Clarke • William Gibson • A Future WorldChapter 10: The Age of AquariusMarilyn Ferguson • High Above the Center RingChapter 11: Truth is LocalJimmy Wales • Three Big Ideas • Rules for a Flatter World. • The Bigger PictureChapter 12: Big BrotherThought Control • Eric Blair • Big Brother Lies • The Spectacle • 2084Chapter 13. Smoke and MirrorsFake Friends • Communications of the First and Second Kind • The Loneliness Machine • Faking It. Chapter 14. the Three Stooges ModelThinking Together • The Public Sphere • Network Truth • Virtual TruthChapter 15. InsurrectionThe Social Contract has Expired • Wael Ghonim • The Children’s Crusade • “Frankly we did win this election”Chapter 16. The Network RisingWe Are Connected • The World’s First Selfie • A Second Transformation

Erscheinungsdatum	08.09.2022
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	558 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
ISBN-10	1-59211-165-3 / 1592111653
ISBN-13	978-1-59211-165-7 / 9781592111657
Zustand	Neuware