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The Death of the Gods - The New Global Power Grab (Paperback)
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The Death of the Gods - The New Global Power Grab (Paperback)
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'Magisterial... a tour de force.' Anthony Giddens 'Essential
reading.' Jamie Bartlett 'Prepare to be terrified, exhilarated and
occasionally inspired.' Catherine Mayer 'Timely and incisive.' Greg
Williams, Wired A groundbreaking examination of the new centres of
power and control in the twenty-first century. The old gods are
dying. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being
swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. Governments are
losing control. The old familiarities are tumbling down and a
strange new social order is rising in their place. More crime now
happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any
state, bots battle elections, technologists have reinvented
democracy and information wars are breaking out around us. New
mines produce crypto-currencies, coders write policy, and
algorithms shape our lives in more ways than we can imagine. What
is going on? For centuries, writers and thinkers have used power as
a prism through which to view and understand the world at moments
of seismic change. The Death of the Gods is an exploration of power
in the digital age, and a journey in search of the new centres of
control today. From a cyber-crime raid in suburbia to the engine
rooms of Silicon Valley, and from the digital soldiers of Berkshire
to the hackers of Las Vegas, pioneering technology researcher Carl
Miller traces how power - the most important currency of all - is
being transformed, fought over, won and lost. As power escapes from
its old bonds, he shows us where it has gone, the shape it now
takes and how it touches each of our lives. Astounding
opportunities are at our fingertips. But are we more powerful as
individuals than ever before? Or more controlled?
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