Networks Rising

Thinking Together in a Connected World

De: Christopher Burns

Narrado por: Justin Straight

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 guerrilla 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.

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A slight against religon

Not what I expected, has little to offer in the science of emerging computer and crypto networks. It is not. What you have is chapters of irrelevant dissertations on how God is a man made construct, and a sophomoric rambling of half told histories. Even the recent histories of computer networks is lacking. Now I feel the need to find another book on networking technologies to bring me something new on the topic.

Not that I am overly religious but the author spends an inordinate amount of time trying to discredit the contributions of religion over the ages. Without any reference to the contrary arguments of classical apologetics he disregards the entire idea of God. I would not be writing if he would not spend so much time on the topic, almost like he is trying to talk himself into his atheistic position.

A better use of your time weeding the garden.